NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Claxton, GA

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5 public K-12 schools in Claxton from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
1,752
Students
40/100
Avg Resource Index
17:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Claxton has more public-school enrollment than 9% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Claxton Elementary School enrolls 47.4% of Claxton's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Claxton's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

96.7% of enrollment in reporting Claxton schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 53-point gap between Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center and Second Chance shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 91%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
45th percentile
Teacher staffing
33rd percentile

Claxton Elementary School accounts for 47.4% of all Claxton public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Claxton a distant remainder — means Claxton-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Claxton school enrollment varies 83× across entities

Claxton school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 831 students (highest), a spread of 821 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Claxton reports 96.7% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Claxton student-teacher ratio is 17.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Claxton is typically wider than the Claxton-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center 63
2. Claxton Middle School 45
3. Claxton Elementary School 42
4. Claxton High School 40
5. Second Chance 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Claxton

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Claxton Middle School 70.3/100
  2. 2 Claxton Elementary School 70.0/100
  3. 3 Second Chance 69.6/100
  4. 4 Claxton High School 68.5/100
  5. 5 Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center 42.0/100

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Which Claxton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Claxton schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Claxton, GA? ▼

Claxton has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,752 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.