Lithia Springs Elementary School

Lithia Springs Elementary School is a tight-knit primary school in Lithia Springs, Georgia, part of Douglas County. The school enrolls 500 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Douglas County comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 25,521 students; Lithia Springs Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Lithia Springs Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Black, 13% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Douglas County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lithia Springs Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Douglas County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,984 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Douglas County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,121 students), of which Lithia Springs Elementary School is one.

Turner Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lithia Springs Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lithia Springs Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 501 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 45% to 52%.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.