Thurgood Marshall Elementary School

Set in Morrow, Georgia, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of Clayton County. It teaches 801 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Thurgood Marshall Elementary School sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Clayton County, which oversees 68 schools and 51,326 students, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Clayton County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Thurgood Marshall Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Thurgood Marshall 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 23.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Clayton County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,806, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Clayton County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,156 students), Thurgood Marshall Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Morrow Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thurgood Marshall Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thurgood Marshall Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Thurgood Marshall Elementary School's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 919 (now 801). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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