Tate Elementary School

Tate Elementary School operates as a close-knit primary school in Tate, Georgia, run under Pickens County. Current enrollment sits at 429 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Across the 6 schools in Pickens County (3,970 students total), Tate Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Tate Elementary School shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Tate Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pickens County (around 58%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tate Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pickens County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $78,930 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Tate Elementary School is one of 6 public schools in Pickens County (combined enrollment of about 3,970 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pickens County High School, around 2.5 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tate Elementary School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Tate Elementary School's enrollment has rose 41% since 2018, when it stood at 304 (now 429). The White share of enrollment decreased from 95% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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