Honey Creek Elementary School

Set in Conyers, Georgia, Honey Creek Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community, overseen by Rockdale County. It enrolls 471 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Honey Creek Elementary School sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Rockdale County, which oversees 18 schools and 15,342 students, Honey Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Honey Creek Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% White. By comparison, Rockdale County as a whole is about 58% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Honey Creek Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at Honey Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Honey Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Rockdale County put the typical household earns roughly $77,247 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Honey Creek Elementary School is one of 19 public schools in Rockdale County (combined enrollment of about 15,355 students).

Nearest neighbor: Memorial Middle School, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Honey Creek Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Honey Creek Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 610 (now 471). White enrollment moved from 21% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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