Mathews Elementary School

Mathews Elementary School, an average-sized elementary school in Midland, Georgia, one of the schools within Muscogee County, serves 702 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Muscogee County comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 30,091 students; Mathews Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mathews Elementary School logs that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 32% Black, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mathews Elementary School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Muscogee County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mathews Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.9%; this one delivers 55.4%.

Around the school, Muscogee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Muscogee County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), Mathews Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Aaron Cohn Middle School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mathews Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mathews Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mathews Elementary School has declined 5%, going from 738 students in 2018 to 702 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 52% to 39%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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