Public school / Primary
Garden City Elementary School
Garden City, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130102001419
- District
- Savannah-Chatham County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Garden City Elementary School is a public primary school in Garden City, Georgia, run by Savannah-Chatham County. It enrols 561 students — the 30448th 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
561
Teachers
37.0
Students per teacher
15.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
87.9%
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 Savannah-Chatham 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.
- 1New Hampstead High School1,436 students
- 2Rice Creek School1,167 students
- 3Godley Station School1,135 students
- 4Jenkins High School1,118 students
- 5Hesse School1,022 students
- 6Windsor Forest High School1,012 students
- 7Groves High School992 students
- 8West Chatham Middle School953 students
- Enrollment−15.0%
- Teachers−19.6%
- Students per teacher+6.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+28.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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