Jamestown Elementary School

Jamestown Elementary School is one of the close-knit K-5 schools in Hephzibah, Georgia, part of Richmond County, with 327 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Jamestown Elementary School is one of 52 schools operated by Richmond County, a district that educates 30,573 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Jamestown Elementary School logs that nearly all students (86%) are Black. The remainder reads as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jamestown Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Richmond County indicate median household earnings sit near $55,637, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Richmond County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), Jamestown Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Meadowbrook Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jamestown Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jamestown Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 16.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 309 students in 2018 compared to 327 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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