Peach County High School

Peach County High School operates as a reasonably sized senior high in Fort Valley, Georgia, one of the schools within Peach County. Current enrollment sits at 1,162 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Peach County runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,980 students. Peach County High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Peach County High School records that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Peach County High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Peach County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Peach County High 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 20.2%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the area at large, Peach County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,293 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Peach County High School is one of 7 public schools in Peach County (combined enrollment of about 3,980 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hunt Elementary School, around 4.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Peach County High School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 28.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Peach County High School's enrollment has increased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 970 (now 1,162).

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