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Best kept secret at Dorothy Height Elementary School?
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Enrollment
419
Elementary
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MUSCOGEE COUNTY·NCES 130387004146
Dorothy Height Elementary School
1458 Benning Dr, Columbus, GA 31903 · (706) 683-8871 · Muscogee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL419 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
419 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 35% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
10.4%
GA avg 40.1% . +1.5pp since 2021
Math
10.4%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.4% | 10.4% |
| 2023-24 | 12.2% | 14.5% |
| 2022-23 | 10.8% | 17.9% |
| 2021-22 | 8.9% | 11.8% |
% 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
12.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Dorothy Height Elementary School
Dorothy Height Elementary School's state test result (12.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Height Elementary School this school | 419 | 100.0% | 12.5% |
| Tobacco Road Elementary School Augusta | 411 | 100.0% | 15.5% |
| Monte Sano Elementary School Augusta | 410 | 100.0% | 15.9% |
| Lonnie Jackson Academy Columbus | 395 | 100.0% | 20.2% |
| Turner Elementary School Albany | 412 | 100.0% | 19.8% |
| Georgetown Elementary School Columbus | 394 | 100.0% | 14.9% |
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 Dorothy Height Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Muscogee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.5% | #1,177 of 1,208 | #26 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.4% | #1,195 of 1,215 ▼ 60 | #26 of 32 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.4% | #1,189 of 1,215 ▼ 13 | #26 of 32 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.1pp | #752 of 1,183 | #17 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 419 | #1,056 of 1,324 | #16 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #134 of 1,301 | #4 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.1% | #1,069 of 1,301 | #28 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #335 of 1,312 | #24 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.2% | #23 of 854 | #1 of 22 |
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
419
-86 (-17%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 419 | 37.5 | 11.2:1 | 100% (419) |
| 2023-24 | 432 | 36.5 | 11.8:1 | 100% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 37.5 | 13.3:1 | 97% (483) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | 38 | 13.3:1 | 96% (487) |
| 2017-18 | 712 | 43.3 | 16.4:1 | 94% (672) |
| 2015-16 | 712 | 41 | 17.4:1 | 100% (709) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dorothy Height Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 41% (712 to 419); teachers down 13% (43.3 to 37.5).
About Dorothy Height Elementary School
Dorothy Height Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Columbus, Georgia. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 419 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Georgia have about 605 students on average; enrollment here is 31% lower.
Dorothy Height Elementary School is a school in Muscogee County. The district has 54 schools and 30,091 students.
Black students are 83% of those enrolled at Dorothy Height Elementary School. Next come 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% White. That compares with about 47% Black among all Muscogee County residents. A diversity index of 30% means there is a 30% chance two randomly chosen students at Dorothy Height Elementary School are from different groups.
The school's 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1, 2.2 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 86% average among public schools in Muscogee County.
Dorothy Height Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (12.5%) and its predicted rate (25.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
In Muscogee County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $58,073 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Public schools in Muscogee County number 57, with about 30,110 students.
About 0.2 miles separate Dorothy Height Elementary School from the closest public school, Baker Middle School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 10.5% on proficiency, and Dorothy Height Elementary School is above that at 12.5%.
For locale, NCES codes Dorothy Height Elementary School as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment was 419 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 505. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.3:1 to 11.2:1.
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Muscogee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
203,711
Census ACS
Median income
$58,073
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
30,110 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Muscogee County
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Other schools in Columbus
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Nearby schools
- Baker Middle School0.2 mi · 631
- South Columbus Elementary School0.7 mi · 326
- Spencer High School0.7 mi · 1,016
- Eddy Middle School0.8 mi · 448
- Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School1.4 mi · 487
- Key Elementary School1.8 mi · 263
Frequently asked questions
About Dorothy Height Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dorothy Height Elementary School?
Dorothy Height Elementary School enrolls approximately 419 students in grades PK-05.
Is Dorothy Height Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dorothy Height Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Dorothy Height Elementary School have?
Dorothy Height Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Dorothy Height Elementary School?
Student demographics at Dorothy Height Elementary School are roughly 3% White, 7% Hispanic, 83% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Dorothy Height Elementary School public or private?
Dorothy Height Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Muscogee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.