Kendrick High School

Located at 6015 Georgetown Dr, in Columbus, Georgia, Kendrick High School is a cozy 9-12 campus that instructs 840 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Muscogee County. Compared to the state average of about 1,120 students per school, that is 25% smaller than typical.

Within Muscogee County, which oversees 54 schools and 30,091 students, Kendrick High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Kendrick High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). The remainder is composed of 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Muscogee County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 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. That share is noticeably above Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

After controlling for student poverty, Kendrick High School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.7%; Kendrick High School posts 10.1%, -15.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Muscogee County indicate median household income runs about $58,073, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Muscogee County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), of which Kendrick High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Georgetown Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kendrick High School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 15.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Kendrick High School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 898 (now 840). Black enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window.

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