Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts

Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Jonesboro, Georgia, part of Clayton County. Current enrollment sits at 518 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Clayton County, which oversees 68 schools and 51,326 students, Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Clayton County as a whole is about 69% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts higher than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of +14.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clayton County indicate median household income runs about $59,806, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts is one of 73 public schools in Clayton County (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students).

M. D. Roberts Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts. On composite proficiency, Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.