J. T. Reddick Elementary School

As a compact elementary school in Tifton, Georgia, J. T. Reddick Elementary School works with 339 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Tift County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so J. T. Reddick Elementary School sits 44% below that benchmark.

Within Tift County, which oversees 11 schools and 7,471 students, J. T. Reddick Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, J. T. Reddick Elementary School lists that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 23% White, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), J. T. Reddick Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Tift County reports that median household earnings sit near $53,255, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Tift County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,471 students), of which J. T. Reddick Elementary School is one.

Matt Wilson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J. T. Reddick Elementary School. On composite proficiency, J. T. Reddick Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

J. T. Reddick Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at J. T. Reddick Elementary School has decreased 47%, going from 637 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment rose from 35% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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