Savannah Classical Academy Charter School

Set in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah Classical Academy Charter School is a tight-knit primary school, run under Savannah-Chatham County. It teaches 349 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Savannah-Chatham County comprises 58 schools with combined enrollment of 36,355 students; Savannah Classical Academy Charter School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Savannah Classical Academy Charter School logs that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 20% White, 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at Savannah Classical Academy Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Chatham County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Savannah Classical Academy Charter School sits in the top 10% of Georgia schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 29.2%; actual is 70.5%, +41.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Chatham County shows median household earnings sit near $71,097, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Chatham County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), Savannah Classical Academy Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Savannah Classical Academy Charter School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Savannah Classical Academy Charter School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Savannah Classical Academy Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Savannah Classical Academy Charter School's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 388 (now 349). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 81% to 50%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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