Public school / Primary
Blue Ridge Elementary School
Evans, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130141001997
- District
- Columbia County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Blue Ridge Elementary School is a public primary school in Evans, Georgia, run by Columbia County. It enrols 603 students — the 26544th largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
603
Teachers
47.0
Students per teacher
12.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
39.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Columbia County
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Grovetown High School2,236 students
- 2Lakeside High School1,940 students
- 3Evans High School1,887 students
- 4Greenbrier High School1,801 students
- 5Harlem High School1,223 students
- 6Cedar Ridge Elementary School1,150 students
- 7Grovetown Middle School1,080 students
- 8Baker Place Elementary1,005 students
- Enrollment−8.6%
- Teachers+2.2%
- Students per teacher−10.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−42.4%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory