Pataula Charter Academy

Pataula Charter Academy is a small combined-grade school in Edison, Georgia, administered by State Specialty Schools II- Pataula Charter Academy. Students in pre-K through 12 attend, and enrollment is 578 students. The typical figure for combined schools in Georgia is about 738 students.

State Specialty Schools II- Pataula Charter Academy operates Pataula Charter Academy.

White students are the majority at Pataula Charter Academy, with 58% of enrollment. It is also 29% Black, 8% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Calhoun County's residents are about 34% White, 24 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 57% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Pataula Charter Academy's 42.6 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.6:1. On average, combined schools in Georgia have 11.7:1, compared with 13.6:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%. For comparison, public schools in Calhoun County average 98%.

Recent Census Bureau figures for Calhoun County show that the median household income is $46,940, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 13%, and roughly 18% of residents are in poverty. Besides Pataula Charter Academy, Calhoun County has 3 other public schools.

The closest public school to Pataula Charter Academy is Calhoun County Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Pataula Charter Academy has 3 other public schools within five miles.

For locale, NCES codes Pataula Charter Academy as Rural: Remote. Pataula Charter Academy is run as a public charter school.

Federal data show 586 students in 2020-21 and 578 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. Students per teacher fell from 15.0 in 2020-21 to 13.6 in 2024-25.

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