Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 28.5% of Spalding County’s student body during 2023-24 school year

There were 2,492 white students enrolled in Spalding County school in the 2023-24 school year, 6.4% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Georgia Department of Education.

Data showed that Spalding County welcomed 8,741 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 28.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 18 schools in Spalding County, Spalding High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 477 students.

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.