NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Thomasville, GA

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

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13
Schools
8,451
Students
41.8/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Thomasville has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Thomasville 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Thomasville's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 4 high-school campuses, plus 5 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

82.8% of enrollment in reporting Thomasville schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 3 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 37-point gap between T J Loftiss Ii Regional Youth Detention Center and Hand in Hand Primary 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 24%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

Thomas County Middle School accounts for 19.7% of all Thomasville public-school enrollment

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

Thomasville school enrollment varies 151× across entities

Thomasville school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 1,665 students (highest), a spread of 1,654 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

Thomasville reports 82.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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

Thomasville student-teacher ratio is 13.3:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. T J Loftiss Ii Regional Youth Detention Center 63
2. Cross Creek Elementary School 46
3. Jerger Elementary School 46
4. Scott Elementary School 45
5. Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School 44
6. Thomasville High School 43
7. Harper Elementary School 43
8. Macintyre Park Middle School 42
9. Bishop Hall Charter School 39
10. Thomas County Middle School 38
11. The Renaissance Center for Academic and Career Development 35
12. Thomas County Central High School 33
13. Hand in Hand Primary 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Thomasville

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 Hand in Hand Primary 62.1/100
  2. 2 Thomas County Middle School 61.1/100
  3. 3 Cross Creek Elementary School 60.2/100
  4. 4 Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School 58.7/100
  5. 5 Thomas County Central High School 57.9/100

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Which Thomasville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

T J Loftiss Ii Regional Youth Detention Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Thomasville 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 Thomasville, GA? ▼

Thomasville has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,451 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.3:1.

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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.