Enrollment
350
Elementary
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARKE COUNTY·NCES 130117002103
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School
715 Fourth St, Athens, GA 30601 · (706) 369-1893 · Clarke County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL350 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Georgia public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
8.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
350 students
DISTRICT 93% · STATE 74%
Community
0
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 | 59 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
8.6%
GA avg 40.1% . -2.7pp since 2021
Math
12.8%
GA avg 44.6% . -3.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 9 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 down about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 8.6% | 12.8% |
| 2023-24 | 11.8% | 13.1% |
| 2022-23 | 14.5% | 22.1% |
| 2021-22 | 11.3% | 16.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Howard B. Stroud Elementary School
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School's state test result (11.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard B. Stroud Elementary School this school | 350 | 100.0% | 11.0% |
| William J. Scott Elementary School Atlanta | 319 | 100.0% | 21.4% |
| Dimon Elementary Columbus | 358 | 100.0% | 23.3% |
| Glenn Hills Elementary School Augusta | 370 | 100.0% | 9.4% |
| Bettye Henderson Holston Elementary School Athens | 322 | 100.0% | 11.1% |
| Emma Hutchinson Elementary School Atlanta | 295 | 100.0% | 15.1% |
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 Howard B. Stroud Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clarke County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #1,191 of 1,208 | #14 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.8% | #1,173 of 1,215 ▼ 13 | #14 of 14 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 8.6% | #1,200 of 1,215 ▼ 16 | #12 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.1pp | #225 of 1,183 | #1 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 350 | #1,179 of 1,324 | #11 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.3:1 | #9 of 1,301 | #2 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.6% | #914 of 1,301 | #12 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #73 of 1,312 | #7 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.4% | #267 of 854 | #8 of 13 |
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
350
-45 (-11%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 331
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
was 8.6:1
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 | 350 | 42 | 8.3:1 | 100% (350) |
| 2023-24 | 378 | 42.7 | 8.8:1 | 100% (378) |
| 2022-23 | 359 | 43.8 | 8.2:1 | 83% (298) |
| 2020-21 | 395 | 46 | 8.6:1 | 64% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 429 | 42 | 10.2:1 | 92% (395) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 39 | 10.2:1 | 92% (367) |
| 2010-11 | 355 | 33 | 10.8:1 | 98% (349) |
| 2000-01 | 562 | 28 | 20.1:1 | 72% (404) |
| 1990-91 | 331 | 27 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Howard B. Stroud Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (429 to 350); teachers unchanged (42 to 42).
About Howard B. Stroud Elementary School
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School is one of the public schools in Athens, Georgia. It is a low-enrollment elementary school. Enrolled students number 350 students, in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students each.
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School is one school in Clarke County, a system of 21 schools with 12,275 students.
By race and ethnicity, Howard B. Stroud Elementary School is 73% Black. After that, the student body is 18% Hispanic, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Clarke County is about 26% Black. Howard B. Stroud Elementary School has a diversity index of 43%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School's 42 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 8.3:1. That ratio is under the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%. Among public schools in Clarke County, the average eligibility rate is 91%.
Measured against Georgia public elementary schools, Howard B. Stroud Elementary School receives an F. 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, Howard B. Stroud Elementary School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 11.0% compared with a predicted 25.7%.
Federal survey data for Clarke County show that median household income is about $53,625, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Howard B. Stroud Elementary School is among the 22 public schools in Clarke County.
The closest public school to Howard B. Stroud Elementary School is Fowler Drive Elementary School, about 1.1 miles away. Within five miles of Howard B. Stroud Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Howard B. Stroud Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Howard B. Stroud Elementary School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 11%, from 395 to 350.
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Clarke County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
129,609
Census ACS
Median income
$53,625
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
13,750 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clarke County
- Clarke Central High SchoolHigh · 1,907 students
- Cedar Shoals High SchoolHigh · 1,489 students
- Clarke Middle SchoolMiddle · 718 students
- Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle SchoolMiddle · 707 students
- Whitehead Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 632 students
- Hilsman Middle SchoolMiddle · 624 students
Other schools in Athens
- Clarke Central High SchoolHigh · 1,907 students
- Cedar Shoals High SchoolHigh · 1,489 students
- Foothills Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Clarke Middle SchoolMiddle · 718 students
- South Jackson Elementary SchoolElementary · 715 students
- Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle SchoolMiddle · 707 students
Nearby schools
- Fowler Drive Elementary School1.1 mi · 366
- Johnnie Lay Burks Elementary School2.1 mi · 492
- Clarke Central High School2.4 mi · 1,907
- Barrow Elementary School2.6 mi · 456
- Judia Jackson Harris Elementary2.6 mi · 392
- Classic City High School2.9 mi · 58
Frequently asked questions
About Howard B. Stroud Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Howard B. Stroud Elementary School?
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School enrolls approximately 350 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Howard B. Stroud Elementary School serve?
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Howard B. Stroud Elementary School?
Approximately 8.3:1 students per teacher at Howard B. Stroud Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Howard B. Stroud Elementary School?
At Howard B. Stroud Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 18% Hispanic, 73% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Howard B. Stroud Elementary School public or private?
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clarke County.
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