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David L Rainer Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About David L Rainer Elementary School
David L Rainer Elementary School operates as a small elementary-level community in Kingsland, Georgia, one of the schools within Camden County. Current enrollment sits at 496 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
David L Rainer Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Camden County, a district that works with 9,754 students overall.
Demographically, David L Rainer Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 25% Black, 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting David L Rainer Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, David L Rainer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 48.3%, a residual of -0.5 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,378, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. David L Rainer Elementary School is one of 12 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 9,754 students).
Nearest neighbor: Matilda Harris Elementary School, around 1.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), David L Rainer Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 61.5%.
David L Rainer Elementary School operates from a town-center location.
Five-year trend. David L Rainer Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 10% since 2018, when it stood at 450 (now 496). White enrollment moved from 60% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.
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