Rincon Elementary School

Rincon Elementary School is a primary school of heavily attended scale in Rincon, Georgia, one of the schools within Effingham County, educateing 1,033 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Rincon Elementary School sits 71% above that benchmark.

Effingham County comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 14,560 students; Rincon Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rincon Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 24% Black, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Rincon Elementary School logs 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Effingham County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rincon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 57.7%, a residual of +9.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Effingham County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $88,438 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Effingham County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,560 students), of which Rincon Elementary School is one.

Blandford Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Rincon Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rincon Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 33%: 774 students in 2018 compared to 1,033 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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