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Johnson County Elementary School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Johnson County Elementary School
As a small elementary-level community in Wrightsville, Georgia, Johnson County Elementary School enrolls 508 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Johnson County.
Johnson County Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Johnson County, a district that works with 1,026 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Johnson County Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 44% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Johnson County Elementary School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Johnson County Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johnson County Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.7%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Johnson County) logs that median household income runs about $51,028, roughly 8% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. In all, Johnson County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,026 students), of which Johnson County Elementary School is one.
Johnson County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Johnson County Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Johnson County Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 538 students in 2018 compared to 508 in 2025.
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Johnson County at a glance
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- Johnson County High SchoolHigh · 298 students
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