Jenkins-White Elementary School

Jenkins-White Elementary School is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in Augusta, Georgia, overseen by Richmond County, caters to 336 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Jenkins-White Elementary School sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

Jenkins-White Elementary School is one of 52 schools operated by Richmond County, a district that instructs 30,573 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Jenkins-White Elementary School logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Jenkins-White Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.7%; actual is 11.1%, a gap of -14.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Richmond County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $55,637 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Richmond County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), of which Jenkins-White Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jenkins-White Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 23.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Jenkins-White Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.