Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for

Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for, a small high school in Jonesboro, Georgia, run under Clayton County, serves 887 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Clayton County, which oversees 68 schools and 51,326 students, Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for shows that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Clayton County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 25.7%; this one comes in at 3.3%, -22.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, Clayton County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,806, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for is one of 73 public schools in Clayton County (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students).

Lee Street Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 25.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for's enrollment has expanded 102% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 887). Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 27% across the same window.

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