Hartley Elementary School

Hartley Elementary School operates as a close-knit elementary school in Macon, Georgia, part of Bibb County. Current enrollment sits at 385 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

Bibb County comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 21,334 students; Hartley Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Hartley Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Hartley Elementary School shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bibb County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hartley Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.2%; Hartley Elementary School posts 11.5%, -26.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Bibb County reports that median household income runs about $51,234, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hartley Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in Bibb County (combined enrollment of about 23,725 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southwest High School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hartley Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 15.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hartley Elementary School has edged down 21%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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