| 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 |
OK.
You gotta admit, 16 pupils per active teacher is pretty nice. Yet from their own information there are about 1150 certified teachers employed in the system, of which, by your info (which really sounds about right) only 40 % are actually teaching.
So it requires 468 teachers to do the work equivalent of 300!
That means 60% of those certified are not teaching; put another way each teacher doing the deed has 1.5 teachers in administrative roles. Somehow, that doesn’t make me feel much better.
Way too many chiefs for even this overpopulation of braves! I think one more school is in the system, which is the Alternative school operating right behind Eighth Street Middle School.
Thanks for the info.