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Enrollment
448
Elementary
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGHERTY COUNTY·NCES 130183002315
Alice Coachman Elementary School
1425 W Oakridge Dr, Albany, GA 31707 · (229) 431-3488 · Dougherty County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
448 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
14.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.7pp since 2021
Math
16.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +7.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.5% | 16.8% |
| 2023-24 | 10.6% | 14.6% |
| 2022-23 | 11.7% | 12.2% |
| 2021-22 | 6.8% | 9.1% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Alice Coachman Elementary School
Alice Coachman Elementary School's state test result (15.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Coachman Elementary School this school | 448 | 100.0% | 15.3% |
| M. A. Jones Elementary School Atlanta | 461 | 100.0% | 14.2% |
| William M.Boyd Elementary School Atlanta | 439 | 100.0% | 21.5% |
| Tuskegee Airman Global Academy Atlanta | 447 | 100.0% | 26.8% |
| Robert H Harvey Elementary School Albany | 431 | 100.0% | 24.3% |
| R. N. Fickett Elementary School Atlanta | 432 | 100.0% | 23.9% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Alice Coachman Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Dougherty County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #1,141 of 1,208 | #11 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,124 of 1,215 ▲ 8 | #12 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #1,142 of 1,215 ▲ 52 | #11 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.7pp | #229 of 1,183 | #7 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #976 of 1,324 | #7 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,076 of 1,301 | #8 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.2% | #1,270 of 1,301 | #9 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #203 of 1,312 | #8 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #524 of 854 | #9 of 10 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
448
-56 (-11%) vs 2020
-29% since 2000-01, when it was 635
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 448 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 100% (448) |
| 2023-24 | 447 | 31 | 14.4:1 | 100% (447) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 31 | 13.5:1 | 100% (419) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 31 | 16.3:1 | 100% (504) |
| 2017-18 | 499 | 32 | 15.6:1 | 70% (347) |
| 2015-16 | 567 | 34 | 16.7:1 | 99% (564) |
| 2010-11 | 395 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 93% (366) |
| 2000-01 | 635 | 29 | 21.9:1 | 87% (552) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alice Coachman Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (499 to 448); teachers down 6% (32 to 30).
About Alice Coachman Elementary School
This page covers Alice Coachman Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school in Albany, Georgia. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 448 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students.
The district, Dougherty County, operates 22 schools serving 13,241 students.
Alice Coachman Elementary School's enrollment is 94% Black. The school is also 2% White and 2% Hispanic. That is higher than the 71% Black share among all Dougherty County residents. The school's diversity index is 11%, meaning two students picked at random have an 11% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Alice Coachman Elementary School counts 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.9 students for each one. This ratio sits 1.6 above the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. About 100% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. For comparison, public schools in Dougherty County average 98%.
The allk12 Grade for Alice Coachman Elementary School is D. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 10% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Alice Coachman Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 15.3%, compared with a predicted 25.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Dougherty County, the median household income is $49,044, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 22 public schools in Dougherty County, enrolling about 13,241 students in all.
West Town Elementary School is the closest public school, about 1.0 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Alice Coachman Elementary School. By average proficiency, Alice Coachman Elementary School is 8th among 9 schools close by.
NCES describes the area around Alice Coachman Elementary School as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, Alice Coachman Elementary School's enrollment dropped 11%, to 448. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.3:1 to 14.9:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Dougherty County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
83,091
Census ACS
Median income
$49,044
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
13,241 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dougherty County
- Westover High SchoolHigh · 1,234 students
- Dougherty Comprehensive High SchoolHigh · 1,191 students
- Monroe High SchoolHigh · 1,189 students
- Live Oak Elementary SchoolElementary · 833 students
- Merry Acres Middle SchoolMiddle · 807 students
- Albany Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
Other schools in Albany
- Westover High SchoolHigh · 1,234 students
- Dougherty Comprehensive High SchoolHigh · 1,191 students
- Monroe High SchoolHigh · 1,189 students
- Live Oak Elementary SchoolElementary · 833 students
- Merry Acres Middle SchoolMiddle · 807 students
- Albany Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
Nearby schools
- West Town Elementary School1.0 mi · 309
- Monroe High School1.4 mi · 1,189
- Merry Acres Middle School2.5 mi · 807
- Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School2.7 mi · 537
- Lamar Reese School of the Arts2.8 mi · 368
- Lincoln Elementary Magnet School3.0 mi · 404
Frequently asked questions
About Alice Coachman Elementary SchoolHow large is Alice Coachman Elementary School?
Alice Coachman Elementary School enrolls approximately 448 students in grades PK-05.
Is Alice Coachman Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Alice Coachman Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Alice Coachman Elementary School have?
Alice Coachman Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Alice Coachman Elementary School?
Student demographics at Alice Coachman Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 2% Hispanic, 94% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Alice Coachman Elementary School in?
Alice Coachman Elementary School is part of Dougherty County.
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