Shaw High School

Located at 7579 Raider Way, in Columbus, Georgia, Shaw High School is a moderately sized four-year high school that caters to 1,162 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Muscogee County.

Muscogee County runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 30,091 students. Shaw High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Shaw High School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 14% White, 11% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Muscogee County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Shaw High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 24.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Muscogee County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,073, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Shaw High School is one of 57 public schools in Muscogee County (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students).

Eagle Ridge Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shaw High School. On composite proficiency, Shaw High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Shaw High School's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,251 (now 1,162). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 26% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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