Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School

Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary-level communitys in Augusta, Georgia, part of Richmond County, with 472 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within Richmond County, which oversees 52 schools and 30,573 students, Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School logs that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.7%; actual is 11.8%, a gap of -13.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Richmond County shows median household earnings sit near $55,637, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Richmond County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Jenkins-White Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 16.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School has contracted 20%, going from 590 students in 2018 to 472 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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