Chattanooga Valley Elementary School

Chattanooga Valley Elementary School operates as a compact elementary school in Flintstone, Georgia, one of the schools within Walker County. Current enrollment sits at 418 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within Walker County, which oversees 15 schools and 8,379 students, Chattanooga Valley Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Chattanooga Valley Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Chattanooga Valley Elementary School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chattanooga Valley Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Georgia schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 31.0%; actual is 54.2%, +23.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, Walker County reports that median household income runs about $59,469, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Walker County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,637 students), of which Chattanooga Valley Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Chattanooga Valley Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Chattanooga Valley Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Chattanooga Valley Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 530 (now 418). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.