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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Harper Elementary School

Thomasville, Georgia

NCES ID
130495001674
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Harper Elementary School is a public primary school in Thomasville, Georgia, run by Thomasville City. It enrols 322 students — the 62538th largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.

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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

322students

62538th nationally, tied with 146

Teachers

23.0FTE

57824th nationally, tied with 2,357

Students per teacher

14.0students

37664th nationally, tied with 1,054

Free or reduced-price lunch

91.6%percent

11517th nationally, tied with 76

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.

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Within Thomasville City

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Thomasville High School797 students
  2. 2Jerger Elementary School785 students
  3. 3Macintyre Park Middle School558 students
  4. 4Scott Elementary School338 students
  5. 5Harper Elementary School322 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Georgia median across 2,332 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−51.2%
  • Teachers−50.0%
  • Students per teacher−2.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+33.6%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.