Wesley Heights Elementary School

Wesley Heights Elementary School operates as a compact primary school in Columbus, Georgia, overseen by Muscogee County. Current enrollment sits at 349 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 42% smaller than typical.

Muscogee County comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 30,091 students; Wesley Heights Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Wesley Heights Elementary School lists that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Muscogee County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Wesley Heights Elementary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wesley Heights 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 18.9%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Muscogee County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Muscogee County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), of which Wesley Heights Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kendrick High School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wesley Heights Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 16.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 6% to 1% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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