The top reported proficiency rate is 20% in Math. The lowest is 5% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Jenkins-white Elementary School
Jenkins-White Elementary School serves a small student population in downtown Augusta, covering prekindergarten through fifth grade. The school sits at a challenging moment academically while its district pursues significant restructuring that will reshape how elementary students feed into middle and high school.
State assessment results from the most recent year show proficiency rates that are very low across all tested subjects and grades. In mathematics, proficiency runs from a low single digit in fifth grade to the low double digits in third grade, with the schoolwide average in the low teens. In English language arts, results are similarly low, ranging from single digits in the upper elementary grades to the low teens in third grade, with a schoolwide average slightly above one in ten. Science proficiency in fifth grade sits at similarly low levels. These results place the school in the bottom quartile of proficiency across the three districts in Richmond County, where other schools show substantially higher overall proficiency. A parent may want to look into this further with the school and district to understand what support systems are in place and what academic recovery or intervention work is underway.
The school's enrollment is small, with roughly four hundred students across seven grade levels from pre-K through fifth. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting economic conditions in the immediate school community. The student body is predominantly Black, with very small populations of Hispanic students and other groups. Data on the share of students receiving special education services or learning English as an additional language was not available.
Jenkins-White is a regular public elementary school, not a charter or magnet school. It is part of the Richmond County School System, which is moving through a major facilities reorganization set to take effect starting in the 2026-27 school year. The district has adopted a Long-Range Facilities Master Plan that consolidates and closes schools, redraws attendance zones, and converts the T.W. Josey Comprehensive High School campus into a districtwide College and Career Academy beginning at the end of the 2028-29 school year. The district is also funding significant new construction through voter-approved sales tax revenue without adding debt, including a new Barton Chapel Elementary site and the new College and Career Academy. A family enrolling a student at Jenkins-White now should understand that the school's attendance boundaries and the downstream middle and high school pathways are likely to shift within the next few years.
Augusta itself is growing, particularly downtown, where multifamily housing construction is adding hundreds of residential units aimed at revitalizing the walkable core around Broad Street. The city's economy is anchored by healthcare, government and military presence (including Fort Eisenhower, the Army's largest training facility in communications and electronics), manufacturing, and education through Augusta University. Housing values in the area are moderate relative to other parts of Georgia, and rent levels remain among the state's most affordable even as they have risen recently. The immediate neighborhood around the school is economically disadvantaged, as evidenced by the universal free-lunch eligibility, yet sits within a growing metropolitan area with substantial institutional employment and development momentum.
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