Let me repeat.
1500 employees
1150 Certified to TEACH CLASSES!
350 bus drivers, lunch workers, janitors, teachers aides, receptionists, etc
IOW, they have about 20% more support staff than teachers actually in the classroom. The rest of the CERTIFIED TO TEACH are either at the central office or are administration.
| Tift County Public School Statistics / Demographics | |
| Number of schools | 11 |
| • Elementary schools | 5 |
| • Middle schools | 5 |
| • High schools | 1 |
| • Other | 0 |
| Number of school districts | 1 |
| Full-time teachers | 486 |
| Average Student / Teacher ratio | 15.68 |
| Total Number of Students | 7,620 |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 3 |
| Asian | 85 |
| Hispanic | 1,263 |
| Black | 2,536 |
| White | 3,568 |
| Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander | 3 |
| 2 or more races | 162 |