Public school
Paul J. Blackwell Learning Center
Elberton, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130201004085
- District
- Elbert County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paul J. Blackwell Learning Center is a public school in Elberton, Georgia, run by Elbert County. It enrols 145 students — the 83264th 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
145
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
14.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
84.8%
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 Elbert 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.
- 1Elbert County Middle School929 students
- 2Elbert County High School875 students
- 3Elbert County Elementary School656 students
- 4Elbert County Primary School461 students
- 5Paul J. Blackwell Learning Center145 students
- Enrollment−78.0%
- Teachers−78.3%
- Students per teacher+1.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+23.7%
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