Public school / Primary
South Jackson Elementary School
Athens, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130294001251
- District
- Jackson County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Jackson Elementary School is a public primary school in Athens, Georgia, run by Jackson County. It enrols 676 students — the 20790th 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
676
Teachers
58.0
Students per teacher
11.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
62.0%
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 Jackson 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.
- 1Jackson County High School1,833 students
- 2West Jackson Middle School1,502 students
- 3East Jackson Comprehensive High School1,343 students
- 4West Jackson Elementary School1,184 students
- 5Gum Springs Elementary School1,122 students
- 6North Jackson Elementary School687 students
- 7South Jackson Elementary School676 students
- 8East Jackson Elementary School594 students
- Enrollment+2.4%
- Teachers+26.1%
- Students per teacher−18.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−9.6%
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