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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Probably 35-40 miles or so really. Elberton to the northeast has a sizable cluster of students, Greensboro to the east, Madison to the south. We don't draw much from the west since you start getting into areas where there are Gwinnett options that are comparable to us.
There are 4 buses, all owned & operated by the school. They probably handle around 20% of the total K-12 enrollment.
Two run the local routes (basically splitting up Clarke County/Athens and Oconee County, where the school is technically located by about a mile, between them). Then there are two distant routes. One makes the trip 35 miles east over to Greensboro/Lake Oconee/Reynolds Plantation area. The other goes south to Morgan County/Madison, where some of the more distant kids are driven to be picked up.
The large majority of students are parent drop-offs (some as much as 50 miles each way), while the large majority of the high school students drive themselves once they're old enough.
edit to add: I had to look up the latest figures, total enrollment is currently 957 students from 19 counties (!)
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That's a helluva draw. Sounds like they have the busing set up as good as you probably can get. I know they changed it several years ago(5-10) around here where you could get some crazy reimbursement rate if you drove your kid to private school. Like 40cents/mile. A parent headed that direction already could grab some serious free coin by dropping their kids off and billing the district 3-4k/school year.