Jackson Road Elementary School

Jackson Road Elementary School is one of the compact K-5 schools in Griffin, Georgia, run under Griffin-Spalding County, with 344 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

Griffin-Spalding County runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,350 students. Jackson Road Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Jackson Road Elementary School shows that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jackson Road Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Jackson Road Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jackson Road Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.3%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Spalding County shows median household earnings sit near $62,071, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Spalding County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,350 students), of which Jackson Road Elementary School is one.

Kennedy Road Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jackson Road Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jackson Road Elementary School has declined 17%, going from 415 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 58% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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