NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Hephzibah, GA

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

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11
Schools
6,824
Students
39.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hephzibah has more public-school enrollment than 68% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hephzibah sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Hephzibah's 11 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

97.9% of enrollment in reporting Hephzibah 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 19-point gap between Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics and Hephzibah High School 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 32%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
44th percentile
Teacher staffing
41st percentile

Hephzibah High School accounts for 15.3% of all Hephzibah public-school enrollment

That concentration means Hephzibah-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. 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

Hephzibah school enrollment varies 3.2× across entities

Hephzibah school enrollment ranges from 327 students (lowest) to 1,041 students (highest), a spread of 714 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Hephzibah reports 97.9% 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

Hephzibah student-teacher ratio is 16.2:1 — 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 Hephzibah is typically wider than the Hephzibah-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics 52
2. Willis Foreman Elementary School 46
3. Spirit Creek Middle School 42
4. Mcbean Elementary School 42
5. Pine Hill Middle School 40
6. Jamestown Elementary School 39
7. Hephzibah Middle School 38
8. Deer Chase Elementary School 36
9. Diamond Lakes Elementary School 35
10. Hephzibah Elementary School 34
11. Hephzibah High School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hephzibah

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 Mcbean Elementary School 63.4/100
  2. 2 Hephzibah Elementary School 51.1/100
  3. 3 Pine Hill Middle School 50.9/100
  4. 4 Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics 40.7/100
  5. 5 Hephzibah Middle School 39.4/100

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Which Hephzibah school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hephzibah schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hephzibah, GA? ▼

Hephzibah has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,824 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.2:1.

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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.