Orrs Elementary School

Orrs Elementary School is an elementary school of cozy scale in Griffin, Georgia, part of Griffin-Spalding County, hosting 467 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Orrs Elementary School sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Griffin-Spalding County comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 9,350 students; Orrs Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Orrs Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 19% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Orrs Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.0%; this one delivers 23.6%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Spalding County shows median household income runs about $62,071, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Spalding County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,350 students), of which Orrs Elementary School is one.

Griffin High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Orrs Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 21.5%.

Orrs Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Orrs Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 467). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 14% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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