North Jackson Elementary School

North Jackson Elementary School, a mid-tier primary school in Talmo, Georgia, one of the schools within Jackson County, teaches 517 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 12 schools in Jackson County (11,160 students total), North Jackson Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, North Jackson Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting North Jackson Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Jackson County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Jackson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jackson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $89,544 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Jackson County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,354 students), North Jackson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Heroes Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Jackson Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. North Jackson Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 47% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 517). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 67% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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