High school (grades 9-12) · Warm Springs, GA

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center

Federal NCES profile for Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 44/100.

2024-25 NCES dataHigh school (grades 9-12)NCES 130363003633
0/100100/10044/100
👥 S:T ratio
92
📚 AP courses
10
🌟 Gifted program
30
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →

The verdict

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center earns 44/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 99% of Georgia schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in Georgia.

44
Resource Index · Typical
2:1
small classes for Georgia
4
students enrolled

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center has class sizes smaller than 99% of Georgia schools. Computed live against every Georgia school reporting to NCES.

School address

Enrollment

4

Georgia · 2024-25 NCES data

Teachers (FTE)

2.0

Federal CCD staff survey

Students per teacher

2:1

vs 14.4:1 Georgia avg

-86% vs state

Student-teacher ratio in context

How Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center compares with Georgia and U.S. medians

Smaller classes than state median

Source: NCES Common Core of Data As of 2024-25 federal staff survey Total enrollment ÷ full-time-equivalent classroom teachers

What stands out at Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center is a small high school in Warm Springs, Georgia, enrolling 4 students.

Classes run notably small here: at 2:1, Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center is leaner than roughly 99% of Georgia schools and 86% under the state's 14.4:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 99% of Georgia schools, with 4 enrolled.

Its Resource Investment Index outscores 97% of the 2,314 Georgia schools with a score on record, a top-tier result on this measure.

Its student body is led by White (50%) and African American (50%) (diversity index 50/100).

No Advanced Placement courses are reported for this campus in the federal data.

Its district draws 26.7% of revenue from federal sources, an above-typical federal share that tends to track a higher-need student population.

Meriwether County also operates Mountain View Elementary School (681 students) and Manchester High School (447 students) alongside Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center.

Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25

How Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center compares

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center on the metrics families compare, against Georgia and U.S. means.

Metric This school vs Georgia Georgia avg U.S. avg
Students per teacher 2:1 ▼ 86% 14.4:1 15.7:1
Enrollment 4 top 100% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

2:1
Leaner classes than 100% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
4
Bigger than 1% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Equity indicators (what these measure)

Staffing depth
2:1
students per teacher - 86% below state mean
Top 1% in Georgia - lower ratio than 100% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Funding equity
$15,085
per pupil, district-wide - above Georgia avg of $13,863
Somewhat below the U.S. average per-pupil spend; funding constraints may affect programs, facilities, and staffing.
Support staff
Counselors0.0 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
0
in-school suspensions + 0 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Overview

  • Common Core of Data (June 2026): enrollment, staffing, and the student-teacher ratio above.
  • Civil Rights Data Collection: discipline counts and program access (AP, gifted, special education).
  • F-33 School District Finance Survey: the district-wide per-pupil spending figures below.

Three separate federal collections, each on its own reporting cadence - which is why this school's numbers line up on a consistent basis against every other school and state on this site, rather than mixing figures pulled from different survey years.

Student demographics

White 50.0%
African American 50.0%

Largest group: African American at 50.0% of enrollment.

Student-body diversity index 50.0/100

Simpson diversity index - at 50.0, Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center is about as mixed as the Georgia school average of 50.0.

Programs

AP program Not offered

Funding & spending

District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Meriwether County, which includes Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center.

$15,085
Per student
+9%
vs Georgia
Avg $13,863
-9%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 34.7%
State 38.5%
Federal 26.7%

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.

How Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center Compares to District-Mates

School Enrollment Economic Profile Student-Teacher Ratio
Mountain View Elementary School Larger No free-lunch data Higher S:T ratio
Manchester High School Larger No free-lunch data Higher S:T ratio
Unity Elementary School (Pk-5) Larger No free-lunch data Higher S:T ratio
Manchester Middle School Larger No free-lunch data Higher S:T ratio
Greenville High School Larger No free-lunch data Higher S:T ratio

Comparisons are relative to Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data.

Other Schools in This District

Meriwether County · 5 sibling schools

View district profile

Similar high schools statewide

Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Georgia, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center

How many students attend Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center?

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center has 4 students enrolled. It is a high school in Warm Springs, GA.

What is the student-teacher ratio at Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center?

The student-teacher ratio at Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center is 2:1, which is 86% lower than the Georgia average of 14.4:1 and 87% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.

What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center?

The largest demographic group at Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center is African American at 50.0% of enrollment, in Warm Springs, GA. Its student body is more racially and ethnically mixed than most US schools, with a diversity index of 50.0/100.

What is the Resource Investment Index for Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center?

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center has a Resource Investment Index of 44/100 (typical reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 3 factors: student-teacher ratio. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).

Is Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center a good school?

Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center earns 44/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 99% of Georgia schools. It is also one of the smallest schools in Georgia. This is a resource snapshot, not an academic rating; see the Resource Investment Index question above for what the number does and doesn't measure.

What other schools are in Meriwether County?

Besides Good Sheperd Therapeutic Center, Meriwether County also operates Mountain View Elementary School (681 students), Manchester High School (447 students), and Unity Elementary School (Pk-5) (443 students). See the Meriwether County district page for the complete list.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

All federal data sources used on this page

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