Kilpatrick Elementary School

Kilpatrick Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Jonesboro, Georgia, run under Clayton County. The school serves 637 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Clayton County, which oversees 68 schools and 51,326 students, Kilpatrick Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Kilpatrick Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 46% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at Kilpatrick Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Kilpatrick Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 20.7%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clayton County) shows that median household earnings sit near $59,806, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clayton County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), Kilpatrick Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jonesboro High School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kilpatrick Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kilpatrick Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 20.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kilpatrick Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 712 (now 637). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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