Ridge Road Elementary School

Ridge Road Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in Sandersville, Georgia, operated by Washington County, with 585 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.

Within Washington County, which oversees 4 schools and 2,661 students, Ridge Road Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ridge Road Elementary School records that 68% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 26% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 53% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Ridge Road Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ridge Road Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Around the school, Washington County reports that median household earnings sit near $46,023, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Ridge Road Elementary School is one of 4 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 2,661 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ridge Road Primary School, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ridge Road Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

Ridge Road Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ridge Road Elementary School has shrank 23%, going from 759 students in 2018 to 585 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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