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If you had an hour of school board time for Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
1,389
Elementary
DISTRICT 718 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAULDING COUNTY·NCES 130402000522
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad
1531 Cedarcrest Rd, Dallas, GA 30132 · (770) 443-4244 · Paulding County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,389 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% 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.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-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
15.3:1
91 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
388 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 18 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 191 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 206 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 220 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 244 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 240 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 270 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (191) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (270).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
43.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -5.5pp since 2021
Math
56.9%
GA avg 44.6% . +0.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.5% | 56.9% |
| 2023-24 | 49.6% | 54.2% |
| 2022-23 | 45.3% | 55.4% |
| 2021-22 | 49.0% | 56.7% |
% 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
50.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.9%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad's state test result (50.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad this school | 1,389 | 27.9% | 50.0% |
| King Springs Elementary School Smyrna | 1,101 | 26.1% | 63.3% |
| Little River Elem. Woodstock | 1,232 | 31.1% | 60.4% |
| Roland W. Russom Elementary Dallas | 982 | 34.1% | 49.0% |
| GLOBE Academy Charter School I Atlanta | 1,093 | 29.6% | 61.5% |
| Silver City Elementary School Cumming | 1,142 | 25.4% | 53.9% |
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 Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Paulding County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #349 of 1,208 | #2 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.9% | #294 of 1,215 ▲ 57 | #2 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #385 of 1,215 ▼ 57 | #3 of 19 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.6pp | #254 of 1,183 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,389 | #13 of 1,324 | #1 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #1,147 of 1,301 | #19 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.4% | #286 of 1,301 | #10 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.9% | #1,192 of 1,312 | #18 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.6% | #157 of 386 | #5 of 10 |
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
1,389
+159 (+13%) vs 2020
+105% since 2000-01, when it was 679
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 1,389 | 91 | 15.3:1 | 28% (388) |
| 2023-24 | 1,418 | 93 | 15.3:1 | 29% (417) |
| 2022-23 | 1,439 | 89.5 | 16.1:1 | 22% (313) |
| 2020-21 | 1,230 | 77 | 16.0:1 | 21% (260) |
| 2017-18 | 1,234 | 75 | 16.4:1 | 17% (210) |
| 2015-16 | 1,111 | 72 | 15.4:1 | 17% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 967 | 59 | 16.4:1 | 16% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 679 | 37 | 18.4:1 | 10% (69) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (1,234 to 1,389); teachers up 21% (75 to 91).
About Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is a large elementary school with an address in Dallas, Georgia. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 1,389 students. The average among elementary schools in Georgia is roughly 605 students; this school is 130% bigger than that.
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is run by Paulding County, whose 34 schools enroll 31,426 students.
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad's enrollment is 52% White. Next come 21% Black, 13% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 6% multiracial. That compares with about 63% White among all Paulding County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.
The school has about 15.3 students per teacher and 91 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1, lower than at this school. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. The 51% average for public schools in Paulding County is 23 points higher.
Measured against Georgia public elementary schools, Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Georgia, Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 50.0% actual against a predicted 62.9%.
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is located in Paulding County, where median household income is about $98,031, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is one of 34 public schools in Paulding County, which together enroll about 31,426 students.
The closest other public school is Crossroads Middle School, about 0.9 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 54.9% on proficiency, and Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is below that at 50.0%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 1,230 in 2020-21 and 1,389 in 2024-25, a 13% rise.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Paulding County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
178,909
Census ACS
Median income
$98,031
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
31,426 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Paulding County
- North Paulding High SchoolHigh · 3,015 students
- Paulding County High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- East Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- South Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Hiram High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- WC Abney ElementaryElementary · 1,324 students
Other schools in Dallas
- North Paulding High SchoolHigh · 3,015 students
- Paulding County High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- East Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- WC Abney ElementaryElementary · 1,324 students
- Burnt Hickory Elementary SchoolElementary · 996 students
- Roland W. Russom ElementaryElementary · 982 students
Nearby schools
- Crossroads Middle School0.9 mi · 908
- Roland W. Russom Elementary1.6 mi · 982
- Pickett's Mill Elementary School2.3 mi · 753
- Allatoona High School2.4 mi · 1,560
- Burnt Hickory Elementary School3.5 mi · 996
- WC Abney Elementary3.6 mi · 1,324
Frequently asked questions
About Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at CrossroadHow large is Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad?
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad enrolls approximately 1,389 students in grades PK-05.
Is Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad an elementary, middle, or high school?
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad have?
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad employs 91 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad?
At Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad, the student body is approximately 52% White, 13% Hispanic, 21% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad public or private?
Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at Crossroad is a public K-12 school, overseen by Paulding County.
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