Rock Spring Elementary School

Rock Spring Elementary School is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Rock Spring, Georgia, run under Walker County, works with 419 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Rock Spring Elementary School sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Walker County comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 8,379 students; Rock Spring Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Rock Spring Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Walker County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Rock Spring Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Walker County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rock Spring Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.0%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of +7.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Walker County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,469 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Walker County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,637 students), Rock Spring Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Saddle Ridge Elementary and Middle School, roughly 2.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Rock Spring Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Rock Spring Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Rock Spring Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 419). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 2% to 6%.

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