Enrollment
327
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND COUNTY·NCES 130438002049
Jamestown Elementary School
3637 Hiers Blvd, Hephzibah, GA 30815 · (706) 796-4760 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL327 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
327 students
DISTRICT 94% · 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 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
18.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +9.5pp since 2021
Math
18.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +5.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 18.7% |
| 2023-24 | 12.1% | 16.4% |
| 2022-23 | 9.2% | 12.5% |
| 2021-22 | 8.5% | 13.1% |
% 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
15.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% 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 Jamestown Elementary School
Jamestown Elementary School's state test result (15.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamestown Elementary School this school | 327 | 100.0% | 15.5% |
| Rainbow Elementary School Decatur | 337 | 100.0% | 20.4% |
| Wesley Heights Elementary School Columbus | 349 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| Charles L. Gideons Elementary School Atlanta | 311 | 100.0% | 16.1% |
| T. J. Perkerson Elementary School Atlanta | 338 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| DeKalb Brilliance Academy Decatur | 357 | 100.0% | N/A |
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 Jamestown Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.5% | #1,137 of 1,208 | #17 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #1,086 of 1,215 ▲ 25 | #11 of 29 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #1,063 of 1,215 ▲ 115 | #13 of 29 ▲ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.6pp | #236 of 1,183 | #6 of 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 327 | #1,217 of 1,324 | #30 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #330 of 1,301 | #5 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #1,134 of 1,301 | #23 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #372 of 1,312 | #16 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.8% | #266 of 386 | #7 of 10 |
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
327
-103 (-24%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 763
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
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 | 327 | 26.7 | 12.3:1 | 100% (327) |
| 2023-24 | 387 | 32.4 | 11.9:1 | 100% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 27 | 14.5:1 | 98% (383) |
| 2020-21 | 430 | 30 | 14.3:1 | 98% (421) |
| 2017-18 | 309 | 20.5 | 15.1:1 | 96% (298) |
| 2015-16 | 347 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 97% (336) |
| 2010-11 | 381 | 23 | 16.6:1 | 80% (306) |
| 2000-01 | 855 | 42 | 20.4:1 | 62% (529) |
| 1990-91 | 763 | 38 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jamestown Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (309 to 327); teachers up 30% (20.5 to 26.7).
About Jamestown Elementary School
Jamestown Elementary School is a small elementary school for students in Hephzibah, Georgia. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 327 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Georgia) has about 605 students.
Richmond County (52 schools, 30,573 students) runs Jamestown Elementary School.
At Jamestown Elementary School, Black students make up 86% of the student body. After that, the student body is 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% White. Among all residents of Richmond County, the Black share is about 56%. Jamestown Elementary School has a diversity index of 25%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Jamestown Elementary School is 26.7 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.3:1. Among elementary schools in Georgia, the typical ratio is 13.3:1. The school counts 327 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 100%.
Jamestown Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (15.5%) and its predicted rate (25.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
Census estimates describe Richmond County this way: median household income is about $55,637, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 17%. Federal data list 58 public schools in Richmond County, with a combined enrollment of about 31,674.
The next-closest public school is Meadowbrook Elementary School, about 1.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Jamestown Elementary School ranks 3rd of 9 nearby schools, at 15.5% versus a 16.3% average.
NCES describes the area around Jamestown Elementary School as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The student count in 2024-25 was 327, 24% below the 430 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.3:1, from 14.3:1.
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Richmond County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
206,069
Census ACS
Median income
$55,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
58
31,674 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Richmond County
- Academy of Richmond County High SchoolHigh · 1,178 students
- Cross Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,152 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 1,088 students
- Hephzibah High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- Butler High SchoolHigh · 878 students
- Glenn Hills High SchoolHigh · 839 students
Other schools in Hephzibah
- Hephzibah High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- Georgia School for Innovation and the ClassicsCombined · 1,015 students
- Pine Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 757 students
- Hephzibah Middle SchoolMiddle · 728 students
- Diamond Lakes Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Hephzibah Elementary SchoolElementary · 574 students
Other Jamestown Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Jamestown Elementary. Jamestown Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 8.
- Jamestown Elementary SchoolJamestown, KY · 480 students
- Jamestown ElementaryArlington, VA · 456 students
- Jamestown ElementaryJamestown, NC · 453 students
- Jamestown ElementaryJamestown, CA · 409 students
- JAMESTOWN ELEM.FLORISSANT, MO · 314 students
Nearby schools
- Meadowbrook Elementary School1.5 mi · 447
- Deer Chase Elementary School1.5 mi · 555
- Diamond Lakes Elementary School1.9 mi · 579
- Freedom Park K-8 School2.1 mi · 608
- Tobacco Road Elementary School2.5 mi · 411
- Glenn Hills Elementary School2.8 mi · 370
Frequently asked questions
About Jamestown Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jamestown Elementary School?
Jamestown Elementary School enrolls approximately 327 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Jamestown Elementary School serve?
Jamestown Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jamestown Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jamestown Elementary School is approximately 12.3:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Jamestown Elementary School?
Student demographics at Jamestown Elementary School are roughly 3% White, 6% Hispanic, 86% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Jamestown Elementary School in?
Jamestown Elementary School is part of Richmond County.
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