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LAKE OCONEE CHARTER
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LAKE OCONEE CHARTER
LAKE OCONEE CHARTER, a mid-sized primary school in Greensboro, Georgia, part of Greene County, educates 873 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% above the state mean of about 605.
Greene County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,597 students; LAKE OCONEE CHARTER is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LAKE OCONEE CHARTER reports that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, LAKE OCONEE CHARTER has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 81% of students at LAKE OCONEE CHARTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAKE OCONEE CHARTER ranks in the top 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.7%; LAKE OCONEE CHARTER posts 57.0%, +21.3 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Greene County put median household income runs about $86,272, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. LAKE OCONEE CHARTER is one of 5 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 2,597 students).
Lake Oconee Charter High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, LAKE OCONEE CHARTER comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area. As a public charter, LAKE OCONEE CHARTER runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 966 students in 2018 compared to 873 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 68% across the same window.
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Greene County at a glance
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