Enrollment
339
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TIFT COUNTY·NCES 130498001687
J. T. Reddick Elementary School
404 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Tifton, GA 31794 · (229) 387-2435 · Tift County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL339 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
339 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
22.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -11.9pp since 2021
Math
37.3%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.9% | 37.3% |
| 2023-24 | 35.7% | 39.4% |
| 2022-23 | 27.6% | 27.6% |
| 2021-22 | 34.8% | 34.2% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like J. T. Reddick Elementary School
J. T. Reddick Elementary School's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. T. Reddick Elementary School this school | 339 | 100.0% | 32.2% |
| Matt Wilson Elementary School Tifton | 398 | 100.0% | 35.6% |
| Washington-Wilkes Primary School Washington | 365 | 100.0% | 31.8% |
| Savannah Classical Academy Charter School Savannah | 349 | 93.1% | 70.5% |
| Goshen Elementary School Augusta | 437 | 100.0% | 21.2% |
| Johnson Elementary School Columbus | 336 | 100.0% | 21.8% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where J. T. Reddick Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Tift County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #748 of 1,208 | #6 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #679 of 1,215 ▼ 64 | #5 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #935 of 1,215 ▼ 313 | #7 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.4pp | #163 of 1,183 | #3 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 339 | #1,201 of 1,324 | #7 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #961 of 1,301 | #6 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #332 of 1,301 | #6 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #408 of 1,312 | #5 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -46.8% | #8 of 854 | #1 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
339
-18 (-5%) vs 2020
-64% since 1990-91, when it was 935
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 339 | 23.5 | 14.4:1 | 100% (339) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 24.5 | 14.0:1 | 100% (344) |
| 2022-23 | 321 | 23.5 | 13.7:1 | 100% (321) |
| 2020-21 | 357 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 44% (156) |
| 2017-18 | 637 | 40.3 | 15.8:1 | 96% (614) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 40 | 13.8:1 | 95% (525) |
| 2010-11 | 537 | 42 | 12.8:1 | 62% (334) |
| 2000-01 | 546 | 32 | 17.1:1 | 64% (347) |
| 1990-91 | 935 | 50 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J. T. Reddick Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 47% (637 to 339); teachers down 42% (40.3 to 23.5).
About J. T. Reddick Elementary School
J. T. Reddick Elementary School is an elementary school in Tifton, Georgia, according to federal school records. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 339 students. Against the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia, enrollment here is 44% lower.
Tift County (11 schools, 7,471 students) runs J. T. Reddick Elementary School.
Roughly 53% of students at J. T. Reddick Elementary School are Black. Other groups include 23% White, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Asian. By comparison, Tift County residents are about 30% Black. J. T. Reddick Elementary School's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
J. T. Reddick Elementary School operates with 23.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 14.4:1. On average, elementary schools in Georgia have 13.3:1, compared with 14.4:1 here. J. T. Reddick Elementary School reports 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 97% average for public schools in Tift County.
Measured against Georgia public elementary schools, J. T. Reddick Elementary School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, J. T. Reddick Elementary School would be expected to post about 25.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 32.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Tift County show that the median household income is $53,255, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 16%. Besides J. T. Reddick Elementary School, Tift County has 10 other public schools.
The shortest distance from J. T. Reddick Elementary School to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Matt Wilson Elementary School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, J. T. Reddick Elementary School is 7th among 9 schools close by.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Distant.
Enrollment has fallen by 18 students since 2020-21, to 339.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at J. T. Reddick Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Tift County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
41,438
Census ACS
Median income
$53,255
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
7,471 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tift County
- Tift County High SchoolHigh · 2,207 students
- Eighth Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 883 students
- Annie Belle Clark Elementary SchoolElementary · 785 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- G. O. Bailey Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Len Lastinger Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
Other schools in Tifton
- Tift County High SchoolHigh · 2,207 students
- Eighth Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 883 students
- Annie Belle Clark Elementary SchoolElementary · 785 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- G. O. Bailey Elementary SchoolElementary · 531 students
- Len Lastinger Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
Nearby schools
- Matt Wilson Elementary School0.7 mi · 398
- Charles Spencer Elementary School1.0 mi · 428
- Eighth Street Middle School1.8 mi · 883
- G. O. Bailey Elementary School1.9 mi · 531
- Northside Elementary School2.4 mi · 405
- Len Lastinger Elementary School2.5 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About J. T. Reddick Elementary SchoolHow large is J. T. Reddick Elementary School?
J. T. Reddick Elementary School enrolls approximately 339 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does J. T. Reddick Elementary School serve?
J. T. Reddick Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at J. T. Reddick Elementary School?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at J. T. Reddick Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at J. T. Reddick Elementary School?
Student demographics at J. T. Reddick Elementary School are roughly 23% White, 10% Hispanic, 53% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is J. T. Reddick Elementary School public or private?
J. T. Reddick Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tift County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.