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Elm Street Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% 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 Elm Street Elementary School
As a tight-knit elementary campus in Newnan, Georgia, Elm Street Elementary School enrolls 477 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Coweta County. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 605.
Across the 29 schools in Coweta County (23,064 students total), Elm Street Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Elm Street Elementary School lists that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Black, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Coweta County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Elm Street Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Coweta County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Elm Street Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.9%; this one delivers 57.5%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Coweta County put median household income runs about $95,548, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elm Street Elementary School is one of 31 public schools in Coweta County (combined enrollment of about 23,423 students).
Evans Middle 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 School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 38.9%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 518 students in 2018 compared to 477 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 8% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.
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