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Jack P Nix Elementary School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 16% |
School pathway
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.5% | 54.5% |
| 2023-24 | 49.3% | 58.1% |
| 2022-23 | 47.1% | 53.3% |
| 2021-22 | 41.3% | 50.7% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
Where Jack P Nix Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #334 of 1,208 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #331 of 1,215 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #479 of 1,215 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.1pp | #669 of 1,183 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 409 | #1,077 of 1,324 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #650 of 1,301 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.1% | #1,070 of 1,301 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.7% | #585 of 1,312 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.1% | #366 of 854 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 409 | 30.5 | 13.4:1 | 90% (367) |
| 2023-24 | 396 | 28.7 | 13.8:1 | 68% (268) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 27.5 | 15.1:1 | 57% (236) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 30 | 12.8:1 | 62% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 482 | 31.5 | 15.3:1 | 59% (282) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 30 | 14.5:1 | 64% (281) |
| 2010-11 | 444 | 39 | 11.4:1 | 60% (268) |
| 2000-01 | 693 | 32 | 21.7:1 | 32% (222) |
About Jack P Nix Elementary School
Jack P Nix Elementary School is an elementary school in Cleveland, Georgia, reachable at (706) 865-6935. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 409 students. Across elementary schools in Georgia, the average enrollment is about 605.
Besides Jack P Nix Elementary School, White County runs 5 other schools. The district enrolls 3,782 students.
White students are 83% of those enrolled at Jack P Nix Elementary School. Next come 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. A diversity index of 30% means there is a 30% chance two randomly chosen students at Jack P Nix Elementary School are from different groups.
With 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.4:1. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is close to this figure. Roughly 90% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 68% average among public schools in White County.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Jack P Nix Elementary School ranks in the top 10% in Georgia. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 51.0%, against a prediction of 31.0%.
In the wider White County area, the median household earns about $70,666 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Jack P Nix Elementary School shares White County with 6 other public schools.
White County Middle School is about 0.3 miles from Jack P Nix Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 5 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Jack P Nix Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Jack P Nix Elementary School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 409, up from 385 in 2020-21.
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