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Enrollment
677
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123002470
Callaway Elementary School
120 Oriole Dr, Jonesboro, GA 30238 · (678) 479-2600 · Clayton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL677 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
677 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 | 24 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 133 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
40%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
22.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +9.9pp since 2021
Math
23.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +14.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 15 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.0% | 23.2% |
| 2023-24 | 23.9% | 19.4% |
| 2022-23 | 12.2% | 14.2% |
| 2021-22 | 12.1% | 8.4% |
% 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
21.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% 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 Callaway Elementary School
Callaway Elementary School's state test result (21.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callaway Elementary School this school | 677 | 100.0% | 21.2% |
| East Clayton Elementary School Ellenwood | 641 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
| Church Street Elementary School Riverdale | 706 | 100.0% | 16.8% |
| Gullatt Elementary School Union City | 712 | 100.0% | 26.4% |
| Kemp Primary Hampton | 626 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Campbell Elementary School Fairburn | 730 | 100.0% | 32.2% |
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 Callaway Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.2% | #1,018 of 1,208 | #21 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #1,000 of 1,215 ▲ 51 | #19 of 37 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #957 of 1,215 no change | #16 of 37 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.3pp | #72 of 1,183 | #5 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 677 | #417 of 1,324 | #10 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #860 of 1,301 | #23 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.9% | #954 of 1,301 | #25 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #103 of 1,312 | #28 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #170 of 854 | #15 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
677
-74 (-10%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 833
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 677 | 48 | 14.1:1 | 100% (677) |
| 2023-24 | 679 | 49 | 13.9:1 | 100% (679) |
| 2022-23 | 706 | 50 | 14.1:1 | 91% (639) |
| 2020-21 | 751 | 48 | 15.7:1 | 93% (698) |
| 2017-18 | 885 | 57 | 15.5:1 | 99% (880) |
| 2015-16 | 886 | 54 | 16.4:1 | 100% (882) |
| 2010-11 | 833 | 55 | 15.2:1 | 87% (721) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Callaway Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (885 to 677); teachers down 16% (57 to 48).
About Callaway Elementary School
Callaway Elementary School serves students in Jonesboro, Georgia, as a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 677 students in pre-K through 5.
Clayton County, which runs Callaway Elementary School, has 68 schools and 51,326 students.
The student body at Callaway Elementary School is 75% Black. It is also 17% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. The diversity index for Callaway Elementary School is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.1:1. The school has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1. In all, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Callaway Elementary School is 4.5 points below its prediction. Actual: 21.2%. Predicted: 25.7%.
The county, Clayton County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $59,806, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. The county's public schools total 73, with about 63,156 students.
Of the public schools around it, Callaway Elementary School is closest to Kendrick Middle School, about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Callaway Elementary School ranks 3rd of 9 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 677, from 751 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 15.7 to 14.1 over 4 years.
On allk12, people connected to Callaway Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Callaway Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Callaway Elementary. Callaway Elementary School is the largest of the 6.
- Callaway Elementary SchoolLaGrange, GA · 638 students
- CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPANAMA CITY, FL · 622 students
- Callaway ElementaryBaltimore, MD · 231 students
- Callaway ElementaryCallaway, VA · 185 students
- CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCALLAWAY, NE · 98 students
Nearby schools
- Kendrick Middle School0.4 mi · 619
- Swint Elementary School1.1 mi · 544
- Pointe South Elementary School1.4 mi · 508
- Riverdale High School1.5 mi · 1,359
- Pointe South Middle School1.5 mi · 693
- Harper Elementary School1.9 mi · 690
Frequently asked questions
About Callaway Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Callaway Elementary School?
Callaway Elementary School enrolls approximately 677 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Callaway Elementary School serve?
Callaway Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Callaway Elementary School?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at Callaway Elementary School.
How diverse is Callaway Elementary School?
Callaway Elementary School reports a student body of 0% White, 17% Hispanic, 75% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Callaway Elementary School?
Callaway Elementary School is overseen by Clayton County in Clayton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.