Tybee Island Maritime Academy School

Tybee Island Maritime Academy School is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in Tybee Island, Georgia, overseen by Savannah-Chatham County, with 432 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Tybee Island Maritime Academy School sits 29% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Savannah-Chatham County, which oversees 58 schools and 36,355 students, Tybee Island Maritime Academy School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Tybee Island Maritime Academy School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Chatham County as a whole is about 47% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 33% of students at Tybee Island Maritime Academy School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Chatham County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tybee Island Maritime Academy School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.2%; this one delivers 55.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Chatham County) reports that median household income runs about $71,097, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Chatham County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), Tybee Island Maritime Academy School is one campus in the mix.

May Howard Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.3 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tybee Island Maritime Academy School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. Tybee Island Maritime Academy School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tybee Island Maritime Academy School has grew 55%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025.

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