Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy

Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy is an expansive elementary-level community in Hampton, Georgia, operated by Clayton County. The school teaches 1,048 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 73% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within Clayton County, which oversees 68 schools and 51,326 students, Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy logs that nearly all students (82%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the area at large, Clayton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Clayton County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy is one campus in the mix.

Eddie White Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.7%.

Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy operates from an outer-ring location.

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