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Enrollment
611
Elementary
DISTRICT 521 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CAMDEN COUNTY·NCES 130078001969
Crooked River Elementary School
3570 Charlie Smith Sr Hwy, Saint Marys, GA 31558 · (912) 673-6995 · Camden County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL611 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A-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.
- C-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
13.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
300 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 25 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
65%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
55.4%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.0pp since 2021
Math
58.5%
GA avg 44.6% . -5.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.4% | 58.5% |
| 2023-24 | 58.1% | 66.3% |
| 2022-23 | 50.2% | 50.9% |
| 2021-22 | 56.3% | 63.7% |
% 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
59.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Crooked River Elementary School
Crooked River Elementary School's state test result (59.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crooked River Elementary School this school | 611 | 49.1% | 59.8% |
| Wright Elementary School Moultrie | 554 | 50.5% | 57.1% |
| Matilda Harris Elementary School Kingsland | 662 | 46.4% | 62.0% |
| Temple Elementary School Temple | 666 | 50.0% | 47.9% |
| C. A. Roberts Elementary School Dallas | 668 | 54.5% | 43.8% |
| Bonaire Primary School Bonaire | 564 | 43.8% | N/A |
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 Crooked River Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #200 of 1,208 | #8 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #264 of 1,215 ▼ 93 | #8 of 9 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #199 of 1,215 ▼ 2 | #6 of 9 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.1pp | #224 of 1,183 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 611 | #570 of 1,324 | #4 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #803 of 1,301 | #5 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #319 of 1,301 | #3 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.1% | #1,046 of 1,312 | #6 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.0% | #278 of 386 | N/A |
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
611
+88 (+17%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 841
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 611 | 44 | 13.9:1 | 49% (300) |
| 2023-24 | 603 | 44 | 13.7:1 | 48% (292) |
| 2022-23 | 636 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 48% (305) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 37 | 14.1:1 | 43% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 30 | 19.4:1 | 49% (284) |
| 2015-16 | 540 | 31 | 17.4:1 | 52% (279) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | 33 | 14.5:1 | 44% (210) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 38 | 17.0:1 | 46% (299) |
| 1990-91 | 841 | 38 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crooked River Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (582 to 611); teachers up 47% (30 to 44).
About Crooked River Elementary School
Crooked River Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Saint Marys, Georgia. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 611 students.
Crooked River Elementary School is among 12 schools run by Camden County, which serves 9,754 students.
More than half of the students at Crooked River Elementary School are White (53%). The remaining shares are 17% Hispanic, 15% Black, and 13% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Camden County's population at about 70%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Crooked River Elementary School scores 65%.
Teacher count: 44 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.9:1. That is in line with the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 49%. The average for public schools in Camden County is similar, at 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, Crooked River Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 75% of Georgia public elementary schools.
Crooked River Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 59.8% is 7.9 points above the 52.0% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Camden County, median household income comes to about $74,378, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Camden County's 12 public schools enroll about 9,754 students and include Crooked River Elementary School.
Crooked River Elementary School is about 1.1 miles from Sugarmill Elementary, its nearest public school. Around the school, 6 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Crooked River Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Rural: Fringe by the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 523 to 611, a 17% increase.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Crooked River Elementary School. You can also rate the school on this page.
Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
56,970
Census ACS
Median income
$74,378
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
9,754 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Camden County
- Camden County High SchoolHigh · 2,912 students
- Camden Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,078 students
- Saint Marys Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,077 students
- Matilda Harris Elementary SchoolElementary · 662 students
- Sugarmill ElementaryElementary · 651 students
- Saint Marys Elementary SchoolElementary · 623 students
Other schools in Saint Marys
- Saint Marys Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,077 students
- Sugarmill ElementaryElementary · 651 students
- Saint Marys Elementary SchoolElementary · 623 students
- Mary Lee Clark Elementary SchoolElementary · 480 students
Other Crooked River Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Crooked River Elementary. Crooked River Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Crooked River Elementary SchoolPrineville, OR · 553 students
- Crooked River ElementaryCasco, ME · 195 students
Nearby schools
- Sugarmill Elementary1.1 mi · 651
- Mary Lee Clark Elementary School2.5 mi · 480
- Saint Marys Middle School3.4 mi · 1,077
- Camden Middle School4.1 mi · 1,078
- Camden County High School4.4 mi · 2,912
- Matilda Harris Elementary School4.7 mi · 662
Frequently asked questions
About Crooked River Elementary SchoolHow large is Crooked River Elementary School?
Crooked River Elementary School enrolls approximately 611 students in grades PK-05.
Is Crooked River Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Crooked River Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Crooked River Elementary School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Crooked River Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Crooked River Elementary School?
At Crooked River Elementary School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 17% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Crooked River Elementary School in?
Crooked River Elementary School is part of Camden County.
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