Jefferson Parkway Elementary School

Set in Newnan, Georgia, Jefferson Parkway Elementary School is a modestly sized K-5 school, overseen by Coweta County. It works with 450 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 26% below typical.

Coweta County runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 23,064 students. Jefferson Parkway Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Jefferson Parkway Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 26% Hispanic, 10% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Jefferson Parkway Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Jefferson Parkway Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Coweta County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jefferson Parkway Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.6%; this one delivers 22.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Coweta County indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,548 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Jefferson Parkway Elementary School is one of 31 public schools in Coweta County (combined enrollment of about 23,423 students).

Odyssey Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Parkway Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Jefferson Parkway Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 517 (now 450). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 41% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Jefferson Parkway Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.