Swainsboro Elementary School

Set in Swainsboro, Georgia, Swainsboro Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school, part of Emanuel County. It educates 627 students across grades 3 through 5.

Emanuel County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,939 students; Swainsboro Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Swainsboro Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 41% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Swainsboro Elementary School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Swainsboro Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 28.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Emanuel County shows median household income runs about $52,772, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Emanuel County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,939 students), Swainsboro Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Swainsboro Primary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Swainsboro Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Swainsboro Elementary School has contracted 15%, going from 734 students in 2018 to 627 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 48% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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