Georgia Mountain News

There were 578 fourth grade students enrolled in White County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.4% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Georgia Department of Education.

Mount Yonah Elementary School welcomed the largest number of fourth grade students among county schools, registering 167 students during the 2022-23 school year.

Within White County schools, the highest student count was found in 12th grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in sixth grade.

Statewide, White County ranked 52nd in enrollment numbers, with a total of 12,127 students enrolled in the 2022-23 school year. It was also ranked 52nd the year before.

According to the Georgia Department of Education, over 1.6 million students were enrolled in Georgia's public schools during the 2021-22 school year. The state boasted a diverse and closely distributed student body across grade levels, with roughly 44% of the students in elementary, 24.5% in middle school, and 31.5% in high schools.

The state also registered an ethnically diverse student body, with 34.4% of the students identified as white, 36.5% as Black, 17.1% as Hispanic, and 4.5% as Asian.

School name	# of 4th Grade Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Mount Yonah Elementary School	167	19.2%	870
Tesnatee Gap Elementary School	161	17.4%	927
Mossy Creek Elementary School	127	16.4%	774
Jack P. Nix Elementary School	123	15%	822