Sue Reynolds Elementary School

Sue Reynolds Elementary School is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Augusta, Georgia, one of the schools within Richmond County, educateing 652 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Richmond County runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 30,573 students. Sue Reynolds Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Sue Reynolds Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Sue Reynolds Elementary School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Sue Reynolds Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 12.9%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Richmond County shows median household income runs about $55,637, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Richmond County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), Sue Reynolds Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Belair Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sue Reynolds Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Sue Reynolds Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 946 (now 652). The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 70% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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