Northside Elementary School

Northside Elementary School operates as a compact elementary-level community in Tifton, Georgia, part of Tift County. Current enrollment sits at 405 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Northside Elementary School sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Northside Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Tift County, a district that hosts 7,471 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northside Elementary School shows that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 23% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Northside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 24.5%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tift County put median household earnings sit near $53,255, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tift County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,471 students), of which Northside Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: G. O. Bailey Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Northside Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northside Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 402 students in 2018 to 405 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 8% to 28%.

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