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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Gould Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 607 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY·NCES 130102000375
Gould Elementary School
4910 Pineland Dr, Savannah, GA 31405 · (912) 395-5400 · Chatham County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
518 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 64 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 28% larger than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
23.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +8.4pp since 2021
Math
28.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +10.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 28.8% |
| 2023-24 | 16.5% | 16.4% |
| 2022-23 | 13.1% | 23.7% |
| 2021-22 | 14.6% | 18.8% |
% 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
22.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.5%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Gould Elementary School
Gould Elementary School's state test result (22.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gould Elementary School this school | 559 | 92.7% | 22.8% |
| Smoke Rise Elementary School Stone Mountain | 539 | 84.4% | 34.9% |
| Compton Elementary School Powder Springs | 593 | 100.0% | 24.6% |
| Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School Athens | 563 | 100.0% | 28.0% |
| Whitehead Road Elementary School Athens | 632 | 99.1% | 34.1% |
| Sweetwater Elementary School Lithia Springs | 473 | 87.9% | 26.3% |
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 Gould Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Chatham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.8% | #975 of 1,208 | #24 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #885 of 1,215 ▲ 225 | #19 of 33 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #931 of 1,215 ▲ 180 | #22 of 33 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.2pp | #168 of 1,183 | #11 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #703 of 1,324 | #17 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #88 of 1,301 | #4 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.3% | #244 of 1,301 | #9 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.7% | #551 of 1,312 | #8 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.5% | #84 of 854 | #3 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
559
-151 (-21%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 745
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 559 | 52 | 10.8:1 | 93% (518) |
| 2023-24 | 887 | 63 | 14.1:1 | 85% (758) |
| 2022-23 | 818 | 59.2 | 13.8:1 | 83% (681) |
| 2020-21 | 710 | 55 | 12.9:1 | 72% (509) |
| 2017-18 | 804 | 56 | 14.4:1 | 67% (535) |
| 2015-16 | 896 | 57 | 15.7:1 | 78% (700) |
| 2010-11 | 841 | 62 | 13.6:1 | 68% (575) |
| 2000-01 | 776 | 41 | 18.9:1 | 63% (488) |
| 1990-91 | 745 | 40 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gould Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (804 to 559); teachers down 7% (56 to 52).
About Gould Elementary School
Gould Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Savannah-Chatham County in Savannah, Georgia. It enrolled 559 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Gould Elementary School is part of a district of 58 schools: Savannah-Chatham County, with 36,355 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Gould Elementary School is Black (42%). Smaller groups are 38% Hispanic, 11% White, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, Chatham County is about 39% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Gould Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 66%.
Teachers at the school number 52 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.8:1. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Chatham County report 74%.
Compared with Georgia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Gould Elementary School's results are 6.7 points below predicted: 22.8% against 29.5%.
Across Chatham County, median household income is about $71,097, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The public schools of Chatham County number 60 and enroll about 36,380.
The nearest public school is Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School, at about 1.2 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Gould Elementary School is 4th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Gould Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 710 in 2020-21 and 559 in 2024-25, a decrease of 151 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.8:1.
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Chatham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
300,879
Census ACS
Median income
$71,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
36,380 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Savannah-Chatham County
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Groves High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- New Hampstead High SchoolHigh · 1,123 students
- New Hampstead K-8 SchoolElementary · 1,118 students
Other schools in Savannah
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- Windsor Forest High SchoolHigh · 1,069 students
- Hesse SchoolElementary · 996 students
- Beach High SchoolHigh · 973 students
Nearby schools
- Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School1.2 mi · 216
- Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center1.5 mi · 25
- Garden City Elementary School3.2 mi · 597
- Butler Elementary School3.7 mi · 524
- Haven Elementary School3.7 mi · 361
- Pulaski Elementary SChool3.9 mi · 1,147
Frequently asked questions
About Gould Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Gould Elementary School?
Gould Elementary School enrolls approximately 559 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Gould Elementary School serve?
Gould Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Gould Elementary School?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at Gould Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Gould Elementary School?
Student demographics at Gould Elementary School are roughly 11% White, 38% Hispanic, 42% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Gould Elementary School in?
Gould Elementary School is part of Savannah-Chatham County.
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