Susie King Taylor Community School

Set in Savannah, Georgia, Susie King Taylor Community School is a small elementary-level community, operated by Savannah-Chatham County. It teaches 284 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Susie King Taylor Community School is one of 58 schools operated by Savannah-Chatham County, a district that works with 36,355 students overall.

On demographics, Susie King Taylor Community School records that the largest single group is Black, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 10% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Chatham County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Susie King Taylor Community School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.0%; Susie King Taylor Community School posts 18.6%, -14.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Chatham County indicate median household income runs about $71,097, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Susie King Taylor Community School is one of 60 public schools in Chatham County (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students).

The closest other public school is Gadsden Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 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), Susie King Taylor Community School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Susie King Taylor Community School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 65%: 172 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 50% to 80%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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