North Harlem Elementary School

North Harlem Elementary School, a sizable elementary school in Harlem, Georgia, overseen by Columbia County, serves 930 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so North Harlem Elementary School sits 54% larger than that benchmark.

Columbia County comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 28,964 students; North Harlem Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, North Harlem Elementary School reports that 64% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 17% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Columbia County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, North Harlem Elementary School records 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting North Harlem Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Columbia County's rate of about 39%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Harlem Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 45.2%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Columbia County put median household earnings sit near $95,592, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Columbia County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,518 students), North Harlem Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Harlem High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around North Harlem Elementary School. On composite proficiency, North Harlem Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Harlem Elementary School has climbed 38%, going from 672 students in 2018 to 930 in 2025.

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