Washington-Wilkes Elementary School

Washington-Wilkes Elementary School is a K-5 school of cozy scale in Washington, Georgia, one of the schools within Wilkes County, caters to 244 students in grades 4 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 60% smaller than the state mean of about 605.

Washington-Wilkes Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Wilkes County, a district that teaches 1,262 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Washington-Wilkes Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 34% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

On the income-and-resources front, Washington-Wilkes Elementary School reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at Washington-Wilkes Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Washington-Wilkes Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of +13.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wilkes County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,043 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Washington-Wilkes Elementary School is one of 5 public schools in Wilkes County (combined enrollment of about 1,272 students).

Nearest neighbor: Washington-Wilkes Primary School, around 0.6 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Washington-Wilkes Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 330 students in 2018 compared to 244 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.