Elementary · Georgia
Gaines Elementary School
Free meals for allGaines Elementary School, a public elementary school in Athens, Georgia: grades pre-k–5, 568 students, 11.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Clarke County.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 568
- Teachers (FTE)
- 50.1
- Students per teacher
- 11.3
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 86% of elementary schools in Georgia
Median 13.4 · 1,309 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 84% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 52% of elementary schools in Georgia
Median 579 · 1,309 schools compared
Larger than 77% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Clarke County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Clarke County.
Location
- Address
- 900 Gaines School Rd, Athens, GA 30605
- Phone
- (706)357-5333
- City or town
- Athens-Clarke County
- County
- Clarke County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Barnett Shoals Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 490 | 9.8 |
Whit Davis Road Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 395 | 10.7 |
Barrow Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 456 | 10.9 |
Howard B. Stroud Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 350 | 8.3 |
Winterville Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 343 | 9.3 |
Johnnie Lay Burks Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 492 | 11.2 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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