Taylor County Elementary

Taylor County Elementary is a modestly sized primary school in Butler, Georgia, one of the schools within Taylor County. The school serves 244 students in grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 60% smaller than the state mean of about 605.

Taylor County comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,176 students; Taylor County Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Taylor County Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 42% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, Taylor County Elementary records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Taylor County Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Taylor County Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 32.9%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Taylor County indicate median household income runs about $41,788, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. Across Taylor County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,176 students), Taylor County Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Taylor County High School, around 0.4 miles off. 3 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), Taylor County Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 48%: 466 students in 2018 compared to 244 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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