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Enrollment
671
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123000462
Brown Elementary School
9771 Poston Rd, Jonesboro, GA 30238 · (770) 473-2785 · Clayton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
14.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
671 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 26 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
22.9%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.3pp since 2021
Math
25.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +12.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.9% | 25.1% |
| 2023-24 | 24.9% | 26.0% |
| 2022-23 | 21.5% | 20.6% |
| 2021-22 | 18.6% | 12.5% |
% 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
25.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% 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 Brown Elementary School
Brown Elementary School's state test result (25.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Elementary School this school | 671 | 100.0% | 25.2% |
| Northcutt Elementary School College Park | 618 | 100.0% | 22.5% |
| River's Edge Elementary School Fayetteville | 652 | 100.0% | 32.2% |
| East Clayton Elementary School Ellenwood | 641 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| Kemp Primary Hampton | 626 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Callaway Elementary School Jonesboro | 677 | 100.0% | 21.2% |
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 Brown Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #929 of 1,208 | #13 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.1% | #967 of 1,215 ▼ 45 | #15 of 37 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #934 of 1,215 ▼ 14 | #14 of 37 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.4pp | #199 of 1,183 | #15 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #430 of 1,324 | #11 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,000 of 1,301 | #29 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.5% | #1,034 of 1,301 | #33 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #77 of 1,312 | #2 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.1% | #364 of 854 | #22 of 34 |
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
671
-17 (-2%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 833
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 671 | 46 | 14.6:1 | 100% (671) |
| 2023-24 | 671 | 45 | 14.9:1 | 100% (671) |
| 2022-23 | 700 | 45 | 15.6:1 | 90% (633) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | 41 | 16.8:1 | 93% (640) |
| 2017-18 | 790 | 53.5 | 14.8:1 | 99% (786) |
| 2015-16 | 822 | 45 | 18.3:1 | 100% (818) |
| 2010-11 | 795 | 50 | 15.9:1 | 84% (670) |
| 2000-01 | 903 | 49 | 18.4:1 | 55% (497) |
| 1990-91 | 833 | 47 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brown Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (790 to 671); teachers down 14% (53.5 to 46).
About Brown Elementary School
Brown Elementary School is a public medium-sized elementary school in Jonesboro, Georgia. It serves 671 students in pre-K through 5.
The 68 schools of Clayton County, including Brown Elementary School, enroll 51,326 students.
The large majority of students at Brown Elementary School, 81%, are Black. The remaining shares are 13% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Clayton County as a whole is about 69% Black, so the school's share is higher. By the diversity index, Brown Elementary School comes in at 33%.
Its 46 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 14.6:1. That ratio is over the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%.
Brown Elementary School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 36% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Brown Elementary School scores 25.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 25.7%.
Census Bureau estimates for Clayton County show that median household income is about $59,806, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. A total of 73 public schools operate in Clayton County, serving about 63,156 students.
The shortest distance from Brown Elementary School to another public school is about 0.9 miles, to Mundys Mill Middle School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Brown Elementary School is 2nd among 9 schools close by.
NCES assigns Brown Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Brown Elementary School enrolled 688; in 2024-25, 671. The number of students per teacher fell from 16.8 to 14.6 over 4 years.
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Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
Other schools in Jonesboro
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
- Mount Zion High SchoolHigh · 1,232 students
- Jonesboro Middle SchoolMiddle · 895 students
- M. D. Roberts Middle SchoolMiddle · 894 students
- Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center forHigh · 887 students
Other Brown Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 7 states are named Brown Elementary. Brown Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 11.
- Brown Elementary SchoolIRVING, TX · 879 students
- Brown Elementary SchoolBrownsburg, IN · 555 students
- Brown ElementaryRENO, NV · 514 students
- Brown Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 497 students
- Brown Elementary SchoolHilliard, OH · 448 students
Nearby schools
- Mundys Mill Middle School0.9 mi · 687
- Mundy's Mill High School1.2 mi · 1,665
- Suder Elementary School1.8 mi · 592
- Jonesboro Middle School2.0 mi · 895
- Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for2.1 mi · 887
- Lee Street Elementary School2.1 mi · 515
Frequently asked questions
About Brown Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Brown Elementary School?
Brown Elementary School enrolls approximately 671 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Brown Elementary School serve?
Brown Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Brown Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Brown Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brown Elementary School?
At Brown Elementary School, the student body is approximately 0% White, 13% Hispanic, 81% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Brown Elementary School public or private?
Brown Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clayton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.