Mill Creek Elementary School

Mill Creek Elementary School is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Statesboro, Georgia, operated by Bulloch County, hosting 602 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 15 schools in Bulloch County (10,999 students total), Mill Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mill Creek Elementary School logs that Black students make up the majority at 66%; the rest is composed of 22% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bulloch County runs at roughly 87%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mill Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.4%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Bulloch County put the typical household earns roughly $58,810 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Bulloch County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,194 students), Mill Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Statesboro High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Mill Creek Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mill Creek Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mill Creek Elementary School has ticked down 16%, going from 720 students in 2018 to 602 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 31% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Mill Creek Elementary School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.