Elm Street Elementary

Elm Street Elementary, an average-sized elementary-level community in Rome, Georgia, one of the schools within Rome City, enrolls 558 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Elm Street Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Rome City, a district that hosts 6,357 students overall.

On demographics, Elm Street Elementary logs that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Black, 10% White, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Floyd County (around 75%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Elm Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 32.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Floyd County shows median household income runs about $65,565, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Floyd County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,383 students), of which Elm Street Elementary is one.

West Central Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elm Street Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 565 students in 2018 compared to 558 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 27% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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