Locust Grove Elementary School

Located at 95 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, in Locust Grove, Georgia, Locust Grove Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school that teaches 576 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Henry County.

Henry County runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 43,012 students. Locust Grove Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Locust Grove Elementary School lists that Black students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder looks like 11% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Henry County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Henry County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Locust Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Henry County put median household income runs about $83,146, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Henry County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,102 students), Locust Grove Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Locust Grove Middle, around 3.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Locust Grove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Locust Grove Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 23.3%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Locust Grove Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 31% since 2018, when it stood at 441 (now 576). Black enrollment moved from 45% to 74% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Locust Grove Elementary School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.