Davis Elementary School

As a close-knit elementary school in Columbus, Georgia, Davis Elementary School hosts 387 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Muscogee County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Davis Elementary School sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.

Muscogee County comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 30,091 students; Davis Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Davis Elementary School shows that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 9% multiracial, 5% White, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 47% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Davis Elementary School shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Davis Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Muscogee County (around 86%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Davis Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.7%; Davis Elementary School posts 10.2%, -15.5 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Muscogee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Muscogee County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), of which Davis Elementary School is one.

Brewer Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davis Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Davis Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Davis Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 381 (now 387). Black enrollment moved from 95% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Davis Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.