Macon County Elementary School

Located at 400 Ga Highway 128, in Oglethorpe, Georgia, Macon County Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that works with 525 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Macon County.

Within Macon County, which oversees 3 schools and 1,047 students, Macon County Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Macon County Elementary School shows that Black students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder looks like 18% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Macon County Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Macon County Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Macon County Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 18.2%, a residual of -7.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Macon County shows median household income runs about $41,031, 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. Across Macon County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,047 students), Macon County Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Macon County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Macon County Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Macon County Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 653 (now 525). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 11% to 18%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Macon County Elementary School community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.