Josey High School

Josey High School operates as a close-knit 9-12 campus in Augusta, Georgia, part of Richmond County. Current enrollment sits at 625 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,120 students per school, that is 44% leaner than typical.

Within Richmond County, which oversees 52 schools and 30,573 students, Josey High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Josey High School records that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 56% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Josey High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Josey High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.7%; actual is 4.0%, a gap of -21.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Richmond County put 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%. Josey High School is one of 58 public schools in Richmond County (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students).

Murphey Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Josey High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

Josey High School operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Josey High School's enrollment has climbed 20% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 625). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 5% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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