Public school / Primary
Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School
Thomasville, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130489001666
- District
- Thomas County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School is a public primary school in Thomasville, Georgia, run by Thomas County. It enrols 781 students — the 15076th 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
781
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
13.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
92.8%
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 Thomas 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.
- 1Thomas County Middle School1,714 students
- 2Thomas County Central High School1,517 students
- 3Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School781 students
- 4Cross Creek Elementary School766 students
- 5Hand in Hand Primary709 students
- 6Bishop Hall Charter School190 students
- 7The Renaissance Center for Academic and Career Development50 students
- Enrollment+18.3%
- Teachers+28.3%
- Students per teacher−7.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+35.4%
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