Pike County Elementary School

As a moderately sized primary school in Zebulon, Georgia, Pike County Elementary School instructs 768 students from grades 3 through 5, overseen by Pike County. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 27% above typical.

Across the 5 schools in Pike County (3,459 students total), Pike County Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Pike County Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest comes out to 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Pike County Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pike County Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pike County put the typical household earns roughly $86,719 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Pike County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,459 students), of which Pike County Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Pike County High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pike County Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 8%: 710 students in 2018 compared to 768 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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