Mary Lee Clark Elementary School

Mary Lee Clark Elementary School operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in Saint Marys, Georgia, operated by Camden County. Current enrollment sits at 480 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Mary Lee Clark Elementary School sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 12 schools in Camden County (9,754 students total), Mary Lee Clark Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mary Lee Clark Elementary School shows that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 15% Hispanic, 15% Black, 13% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mary Lee Clark Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at Mary Lee Clark Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mary Lee Clark Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 65.4%, a residual of +11.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Camden County shows median household income runs about $74,378, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Camden County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,754 students), Mary Lee Clark Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Saint Marys Middle School, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mary Lee Clark Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mary Lee Clark Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 521 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 25% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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