Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate)

Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate) operates as a tight-knit K-5 school in Cleveland, Georgia, operated by White County. Current enrollment sits at 482 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 20% leaner than typical.

White County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,782 students. Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate) is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate) records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, White County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.7%; this one delivers 35.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (White County) shows that median household income runs about $70,666, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate) is one of 7 public schools in White County (combined enrollment of about 5,474 students).

The closest other public school is White County High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tesnatee Gap Elementary (Old White Co. Intermediate) comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 10%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 482 in 2025.

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