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What's one thing Dorsett Shoals Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
404
Elementary
DISTRICT 520 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY·NCES 130186001927
Dorsett Shoals Elementary School
5866 Dorsett Shoals Rd, Douglasville, GA 30135 · (770) 651-3700 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL404 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 39% of Georgia public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
15.0:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
304 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 74%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
33.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -7.3pp since 2021
Math
37.0%
GA avg 44.6% . +6.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.7% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.8% | 32.7% |
| 2022-23 | 37.5% | 34.0% |
| 2021-22 | 41.0% | 30.7% |
% 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
36.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Dorsett Shoals Elementary School
Dorsett Shoals Elementary School's state test result (36.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorsett Shoals Elementary School this school | 404 | 75.2% | 36.5% |
| Midvale Elementary School Tucker | 417 | 78.7% | 41.4% |
| Briar Vista Elementary School Atlanta | 482 | 71.2% | 45.9% |
| Acworth Elementary School Acworth | 499 | 69.1% | 43.4% |
| Garden Hills Elementary School Atlanta | 494 | 72.5% | 40.8% |
| Jordan Hill Road Elementary School Griffin | 396 | 84.3% | 26.5% |
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 Dorsett Shoals Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #624 of 1,208 | #10 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #685 of 1,215 ▲ 91 | #13 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #627 of 1,215 ▼ 100 | #9 of 21 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #383 of 1,183 | #7 of 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 404 | #1,085 of 1,324 | #18 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #1,086 of 1,301 | #14 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #129 of 1,301 | #2 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.2% | #776 of 1,312 | #13 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.8% | #498 of 854 | #9 of 17 |
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
404
-41 (-9%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 542
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 404 | 27 | 15.0:1 | 75% (304) |
| 2023-24 | 394 | 29.5 | 13.4:1 | 81% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 31.6 | 12.3:1 | 74% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 445 | 32 | 13.9:1 | 64% (283) |
| 2017-18 | 453 | 30.5 | 14.8:1 | 71% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 444 | 29 | 15.3:1 | 66% (294) |
| 2010-11 | 407 | 35 | 11.6:1 | 61% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 493 | 31 | 15.9:1 | 23% (112) |
| 1990-91 | 542 | 30 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dorsett Shoals Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (453 to 404); teachers down 11% (30.5 to 27).
About Dorsett Shoals Elementary School
Dorsett Shoals Elementary School is a small elementary school located in Douglasville, Georgia. Enrollment stands at 404 students, covering pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 33% below the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Douglas County has 35 schools; together they serve 25,521 students.
The biggest share of students at Dorsett Shoals Elementary School, 42%, is Black. The rest of enrollment is 26% Hispanic, 24% White, and 7% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Douglas County's population at about 50%. The diversity index for Dorsett Shoals Elementary School is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dorsett Shoals Elementary School is 15.0:1, based on 27 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Georgia, 13.3:1, is lower. Dorsett Shoals Elementary School counts 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Georgia public elementary schools, Dorsett Shoals Elementary School outscored 39%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 38.5% for Dorsett Shoals Elementary School. The school posts 36.5%, 2.0 points below the prediction.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Douglas County show that the median household earns about $82,984 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Douglas County, 37 public schools serve about 26,121 students.
Yeager Middle School is about 0.9 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Dorsett Shoals Elementary School's average proficiency of 36.5% compares with 31.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 41 students, from 445 to 404. Federal data show the ratio rising from 13.9:1 to 15.0:1.
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Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
147,888
Census ACS
Median income
$82,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
26,121 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County
- Douglas County High SchoolHigh · 1,958 students
- New Manchester High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- Alexander High SchoolHigh · 1,830 students
- Chapel Hill High SchoolHigh · 1,646 students
- Lithia Springs Comprehensive High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- Chapel Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,036 students
Other schools in Douglasville
- Douglas County High SchoolHigh · 1,958 students
- New Manchester High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- South Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Alexander High SchoolHigh · 1,830 students
- Chapel Hill High SchoolHigh · 1,646 students
- Chapel Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,036 students
Nearby schools
- Yeager Middle School0.9 mi · 529
- Alexander High School1.2 mi · 1,830
- Bill Arp Elementary School1.6 mi · 645
- Chapel Hill Elementary School1.6 mi · 620
- Youth Villages at Inner Harbour1.9 mi · 46
- Arbor Station Elementary School2.1 mi · 544
Frequently asked questions
About Dorsett Shoals Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Dorsett Shoals Elementary School?
Dorsett Shoals Elementary School enrolls approximately 404 students in grades PK-05.
Is Dorsett Shoals Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dorsett Shoals Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dorsett Shoals Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dorsett Shoals Elementary School is approximately 15.0:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Dorsett Shoals Elementary School?
Student demographics at Dorsett Shoals Elementary School are roughly 24% White, 26% Hispanic, 42% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Dorsett Shoals Elementary School in?
Dorsett Shoals Elementary School is part of Douglas County.
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