Portal Elementary School

Portal Elementary School is one of the cozy primary schools in Portal, Georgia, part of Bulloch County, with 422 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Portal Elementary School sits 30% below that benchmark.

Across the 15 schools in Bulloch County (10,999 students total), Portal Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Portal Elementary School logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 27% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Bulloch County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Portal Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Portal Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 28.6%; this one delivers 47.4%, a residual of +18.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Bulloch County shows median household earnings sit near $58,810, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Bulloch County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,194 students), of which Portal Elementary School is one.

Portal Middle/High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Portal Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 33.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Portal Elementary School has grew 10%, going from 384 students in 2018 to 422 in 2025.

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