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Enrollment
557
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRIFFIN-SPALDING COUNTY·NCES 130252002194
Cowan Road Elementary School
1233 Cowan Rd, Griffin, GA 30223 · (770) 229-3790 · Spalding County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% 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.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
15.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
497 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 60 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
16.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.0pp since 2021
Math
12.8%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.5% | 12.8% |
| 2023-24 | 16.0% | 18.0% |
| 2022-23 | 20.7% | 16.2% |
| 2021-22 | 17.5% | 14.0% |
% 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
16.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 31% 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 Cowan Road Elementary School
Cowan Road Elementary School's state test result (16.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowan Road Elementary School this school | 557 | 89.2% | 16.4% |
| Lakeview Academy Milledgeville | 575 | 86.8% | 30.5% |
| Moreland Road Elementary Griffin | 490 | 86.5% | 25.5% |
| Hightower Trail Elementary School Conyers | 500 | 93.6% | 23.9% |
| Barksdale Elementary School Conyers | 495 | 87.3% | 31.3% |
| Isle of Hope School Savannah | 569 | 88.0% | 20.8% |
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 Cowan Road Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Spalding County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.4% | #1,121 of 1,208 | #8 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.8% | #1,175 of 1,215 ▼ 96 | #9 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #1,096 of 1,215 ▲ 24 | #8 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.1pp | #348 of 1,183 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #710 of 1,324 | #2 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #1,115 of 1,301 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #529 of 1,301 | #8 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.2% | #590 of 1,312 | #6 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.4% | #420 of 854 | #6 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
557
+24 (+5%) vs 2020
-10% since 2000-01, when it was 619
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
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 | 557 | 36.9 | 15.1:1 | 89% (497) |
| 2023-24 | 561 | 38.9 | 14.4:1 | 99% (555) |
| 2022-23 | 566 | 38 | 14.9:1 | 98% (557) |
| 2020-21 | 533 | 39 | 13.7:1 | 76% (403) |
| 2017-18 | 643 | 40.1 | 16.0:1 | 88% (565) |
| 2015-16 | 616 | 37 | 16.6:1 | 81% (497) |
| 2010-11 | 663 | 43 | 15.4:1 | 76% (502) |
| 2000-01 | 619 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 54% (333) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cowan Road Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (643 to 557); teachers down 8% (40.1 to 36.9).
About Cowan Road Elementary School
Cowan Road Elementary School, located in Griffin, Georgia, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 557 students.
Across its 18 schools, Griffin-Spalding County enrolls 9,350 students. Cowan Road Elementary School is one of those schools.
The largest group at Cowan Road Elementary School is Black students, at 59%. The remaining students are 21% White, 15% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Among people living in Spalding County, the Black share is about 36%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Cowan Road Elementary School scores 59%.
The school's 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1. Elementary schools in Georgia have an average ratio of 13.3:1. At Cowan Road Elementary School, 89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Spalding County average a similar 92%.
On the allk12 Grade, Cowan Road Elementary School lands at F, ahead of 2% of Georgia public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Cowan Road Elementary School is -14.9 points, in the bottom 10% of Georgia. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 16.4%, and the predicted rate is 31.2%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Spalding County show that the median household earns about $62,071 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 19%, and about 14% of people live in poverty. Spalding County has 18 public schools with about 9,350 students, including Cowan Road Elementary School.
The closest school to Cowan Road Elementary School is Cowan Road Middle School, located about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Cowan Road Elementary School ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 16.4% versus a 21.5% average.
Under the NCES locale system, Cowan Road Elementary School is Rural: Fringe.
In 2020-21, Cowan Road Elementary School enrolled 533 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 557. Federal data show the ratio rising from 13.7:1 to 15.1:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Cowan Road Elementary School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Spalding County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
68,892
Census ACS
Median income
$62,071
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
9,350 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Griffin-Spalding County
- Griffin High SchoolHigh · 1,505 students
- Spalding High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Futral Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 600 students
- Rehoboth Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 543 students
- Cowan Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Moreland Road ElementaryElementary · 490 students
Other schools in Griffin
- Griffin High SchoolHigh · 1,505 students
- Spalding High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Futral Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 600 students
- Rehoboth Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 543 students
- Cowan Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
- Moreland Road ElementaryElementary · 490 students
Nearby schools
- Cowan Road Middle School0.2 mi · 530
- Orrs Elementary School2.0 mi · 467
- Griffin High School2.5 mi · 1,505
- Jordan Hill Road Elementary School2.7 mi · 396
- Atkinson Elementary School2.8 mi · 366
- Beaverbrook Elementary School3.0 mi · 318
Frequently asked questions
About Cowan Road Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cowan Road Elementary School?
Cowan Road Elementary School enrolls approximately 557 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cowan Road Elementary School serve?
Cowan Road Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Cowan Road Elementary School?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at Cowan Road Elementary School.
How diverse is Cowan Road Elementary School?
Cowan Road Elementary School reports a student body of 21% White, 15% Hispanic, 59% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Cowan Road Elementary School public or private?
Cowan Road Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Griffin-Spalding County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.