Saint Marys Elementary School

Saint Marys Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Saint Marys, Georgia, operated by Camden County. The school works with 623 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Camden County, which oversees 12 schools and 9,754 students, Saint Marys Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Saint Marys Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 18% Black, 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Saint Marys Elementary School reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Saint Marys Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.8%; this one delivers 61.2%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Camden County put the typical household earns roughly $74,378 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Saint Marys Elementary School is one of 12 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 9,754 students).

Saint Marys Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Saint Marys Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 670 students in 2018 compared to 623 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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