Rigdon Road Elementary School

Located at 1320 Rigdon Rd, in Columbus, Georgia, Rigdon Road Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary-level community that hosts 437 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Muscogee County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Rigdon Road Elementary School sits 28% below that benchmark.

Rigdon Road Elementary School is one of 54 schools operated by Muscogee County, a district that hosts 30,091 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rigdon Road Elementary School shows that Black students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% White. By comparison, Muscogee County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Muscogee County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rigdon Road Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 13.2%.

In the area at large, Muscogee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Rigdon Road Elementary School is one of 57 public schools in Muscogee County (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students).

Rainey McCullers School of the Arts is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rigdon Road Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rigdon Road Elementary School has decreased 28%, going from 605 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 90% to 78% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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