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What's the most underrated thing about Bethlehem Elementary School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
630
Elementary
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENRY COUNTY·NCES 130282003566
Bethlehem Elementary School
1000 Academic Pkwy, Locust Grove, GA 30248 · (770) 288-8571 · Henry County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL630 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
445 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 10 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 139 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (139).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
25.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -2.8pp since 2021
Math
27.9%
GA avg 44.6% . +1.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.3% | 27.9% |
| 2023-24 | 22.2% | 17.9% |
| 2022-23 | 25.5% | 24.7% |
| 2021-22 | 28.1% | 26.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.9%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Bethlehem Elementary School
Bethlehem Elementary School's state test result (25.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethlehem Elementary School this school | 630 | 70.6% | 25.0% |
| Luella Elementary School Locust Grove | 616 | 70.8% | 28.8% |
| Walnut Creek Elementary McDonough | 712 | 74.7% | 21.9% |
| Chapel Hill Elementary School Douglasville | 620 | 69.2% | 32.5% |
| Locust Grove Elementary School Locust Grove | 576 | 75.0% | 29.7% |
| Hickory Flat Elementary School McDonough | 560 | 65.9% | 25.7% |
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 Bethlehem Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Henry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #933 of 1,208 | #21 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #911 of 1,215 ▲ 170 | #17 of 28 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #869 of 1,215 ▲ 127 | #21 of 28 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.7pp | #371 of 1,183 | #7 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 630 | #526 of 1,324 | #12 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #1,199 of 1,301 | #26 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.8% | #995 of 1,301 | #27 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.6% | #825 of 1,312 | #16 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +27.3% | #62 of 386 | #2 of 9 |
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
630
+166 (+36%) vs 2020
+8% since 2010-11, when it was 586
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 630 | 40.1 | 15.7:1 | 71% (445) |
| 2023-24 | 472 | 33.7 | 14.0:1 | 70% (332) |
| 2022-23 | 474 | 35.1 | 13.5:1 | 53% (253) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 41% (188) |
| 2017-18 | 495 | 38 | 13.0:1 | 45% (223) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 36 | 14.5:1 | 30% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 586 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 36% (211) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bethlehem Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 27% (495 to 630); teachers up 6% (38 to 40.1).
About Bethlehem Elementary School
Bethlehem Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Locust Grove, Georgia. It enrolled 630 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Henry County runs 53 schools with a combined 43,012 students. Bethlehem Elementary School is one of them.
By race and ethnicity, Bethlehem Elementary School is 79% Black. After that, the student body is 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Henry County is about 52% Black. Bethlehem Elementary School has a diversity index of 37%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at Bethlehem Elementary School total 40.1 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.7:1. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is lower than this school's figure. The school counts 445 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 71%. The gap from the 63% average for public schools in Henry County is 8 points.
Bethlehem Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 25.0%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Georgia are predicted to post 40.9%, so the school is 15.8 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
Census Bureau estimates for Henry County show that median household income is about $83,146, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Bethlehem Elementary School is one of 54 public schools in Henry County, which together enroll about 43,102 students.
The closest public school to Bethlehem Elementary School is Tussahaw Elementary, about 1.9 miles away. Within five miles of Bethlehem Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Bethlehem Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Bethlehem Elementary School went from 464 students to 630. The ratio was 13.7:1 in 2020-21 and 15.7:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Henry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
249,960
Census ACS
Median income
$83,146
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
43,102 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Henry County
- Dutchtown HighHigh · 1,821 students
- Union Grove HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Ola High SchoolHigh · 1,586 students
- Eagle's Landing High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Locust Grove HighHigh · 1,572 students
- Stockbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
Other schools in Locust Grove
- Locust Grove HighHigh · 1,572 students
- Luella High SchoolHigh · 1,236 students
- Locust Grove MiddleMiddle · 1,010 students
- Unity Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 882 students
- Luella Middle SchoolMiddle · 849 students
- New Hope ElementaryElementary · 621 students
Other Bethlehem Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Bethlehem Elementary. Bethlehem Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Bethlehem Elementary SchoolBethlehem, GA · 641 students
- Bethlehem ElementaryTaylorsville, NC · 435 students
- Bethlehem Elementary SchoolBethlehem, CT · 276 students
- Bethlehem Elementary SchoolBethlehem, NH · 142 students
- Bethlehem Elementary SchoolWheeling, WV · 125 students
Nearby schools
- Tussahaw Elementary1.9 mi · 886
- Luella Elementary School3.0 mi · 616
- Luella High School3.2 mi · 1,236
- Luella Middle School3.5 mi · 849
- Locust Grove Elementary School3.7 mi · 576
- McDonough High School3.9 mi · 1,359
Frequently asked questions
About Bethlehem Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bethlehem Elementary School?
Bethlehem Elementary School enrolls approximately 630 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bethlehem Elementary School serve?
Bethlehem Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Bethlehem Elementary School?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at Bethlehem Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bethlehem Elementary School?
At Bethlehem Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 8% Hispanic, 79% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Bethlehem Elementary School public or private?
Bethlehem Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Henry County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.