Sumter County High School

Sumter County High School operates as a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Americus, Georgia, overseen by Sumter County. Current enrollment sits at 1,037 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Sumter County runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,560 students. Sumter County High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sumter County High School reports that 75% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 50% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at Sumter County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Sumter County High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sumter County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $42,653 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Sumter County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,145 students), of which Sumter County High School is one.

Sumter County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sumter County High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.8%.

Sumter County High School operates from a countryside location.

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