Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level. The Georgia average is about 45 of 100. Math scores are up about 49 points since 2021.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 37 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School
Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School is one of the very small senior highs in Savannah, Georgia, operated by Savannah-Chatham County, with 68 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,120 students per school, that is 94% below typical.
Savannah-Chatham County runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 36,355 students. Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School reports that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 18% White, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School logs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.2:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 75.9%, a residual of +37.3 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Chatham County put median household earnings sit near $71,097, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Chatham County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), of which Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Savannah Classical Academy Charter School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.
Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School operates from a city-core location. Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School has stayed largely flat, going from 68 students in 2018 to 68 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 7% to 28% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 61.8:1 in 2018 to 7.2:1 today.
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