Mulberry Creek Elementary School

Mulberry Creek Elementary School is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Cataula, Georgia, overseen by Harris County, with 529 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Harris County runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,663 students. Mulberry Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mulberry Creek Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mulberry Creek Elementary School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Mulberry Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,302 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Mulberry Creek Elementary School is one of 7 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 5,663 students).

Nearest neighbor: Creekside School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mulberry Creek Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mulberry Creek Elementary School has expanded 5%, going from 505 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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