Enrollment
263
Elementary
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MUSCOGEE COUNTY·NCES 130387001402
Key Elementary School
2520 Broadmoor Dr, Columbus, GA 31903 · (706) 683-8797 · Muscogee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL263 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
263 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 23 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 33% larger than its 5th grade class (33).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
9.1%
GA avg 40.1% . +1.8pp since 2021
Math
12.1%
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 12 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 9.1% | 12.1% |
| 2023-24 | 12.1% | 11.2% |
| 2022-23 | 7.4% | 8.1% |
| 2021-22 | 7.2% | 8.6% |
% 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
11.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.4pp
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 Key Elementary School
Key Elementary School's state test result (11.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Elementary School this school | 263 | 100.0% | 11.3% |
| Emma Hutchinson Elementary School Atlanta | 295 | 100.0% | 15.1% |
| West Manor Elementary School Atlanta | 247 | 100.0% | 33.4% |
| Joseph Humphries Elementary School Atlanta | 237 | 100.0% | 16.3% |
| William J. Scott Elementary School Atlanta | 319 | 100.0% | 21.4% |
| International Academy of Smyrna Smyrna | 328 | 100.0% | N/A |
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 Key Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Muscogee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.3% | #1,187 of 1,208 | #28 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.1% | #1,181 of 1,215 ▲ 6 | #23 of 32 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.1% | #1,197 of 1,215 ▼ 17 | #27 of 32 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #553 of 1,183 | #10 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 263 | #1,272 of 1,324 | #33 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #187 of 1,301 | #6 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.2% | #882 of 1,301 | #19 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #313 of 1,312 | #2 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.5% | #92 of 854 | #6 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
263
-41 (-13%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 487
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 263 | 22.8 | 11.5:1 | 100% (263) |
| 2023-24 | 304 | 21.5 | 14.1:1 | 100% (304) |
| 2022-23 | 308 | 19.5 | 15.8:1 | 97% (298) |
| 2020-21 | 304 | 23 | 13.2:1 | 97% (294) |
| 2017-18 | 373 | 24.5 | 15.2:1 | 94% (352) |
| 2015-16 | 341 | 22 | 15.5:1 | 99% (338) |
| 2010-11 | 343 | 28 | 12.3:1 | 92% (315) |
| 2000-01 | 350 | 23 | 15.2:1 | 85% (296) |
| 1990-91 | 487 | 26 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Key Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (373 to 263); teachers down 7% (24.5 to 22.8).
About Key Elementary School
Key Elementary School is a public elementary school in Columbus, Georgia. It enrolls 263 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That is 57% below the average of about 605 students for elementary schools in Georgia.
Muscogee County, which runs Key Elementary School, has 54 schools and 30,091 students.
The share of Black students at Key Elementary School is 71%, a majority. The school is also 22% Hispanic, 3% White, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 47% Black share among all Muscogee County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 44%.
Key Elementary School has 22.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.5:1. The gap from the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is 1.8 students per teacher. At Key Elementary School, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The gap from the 86% average for public schools in Muscogee County is 14 points.
Test results at Key Elementary School are 14.4 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 11.3%, compared with a predicted 25.7%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Georgia.
For Muscogee County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $58,073, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. There are 57 public schools in the county, enrolling about 30,110, Key Elementary School among them.
Measured in a straight line, Eddy Middle School is about 1.1 miles from Key Elementary School. The five-mile area around Key Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 11.3% average proficiency ranks 6th among 9 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
A 13% decline took enrollment from 304 in 2020-21 to 263 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.2:1 to 11.5:1.
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Muscogee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
203,711
Census ACS
Median income
$58,073
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
30,110 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Muscogee County
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Other schools in Columbus
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Other Key Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Key Elementary. Key Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 6.
- Key Elementary SchoolOAK PARK, MI · 516 students
- Key Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 391 students
- Key Elementary SchoolWashington, DC · 337 students
- Key Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 309 students
- Key Elementary SchoolJackson, MS · 259 students
Nearby schools
- Eddy Middle School1.1 mi · 448
- South Columbus Elementary School1.2 mi · 326
- Dorothy Height Elementary School1.8 mi · 419
- Baker Middle School1.9 mi · 631
- Spencer High School2.4 mi · 1,016
- Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School2.7 mi · 487
Frequently asked questions
About Key Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Key Elementary School?
Key Elementary School enrolls approximately 263 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Key Elementary School serve?
Key Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Key Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Key Elementary School is approximately 11.5:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Key Elementary School?
Student demographics at Key Elementary School are roughly 3% White, 22% Hispanic, 71% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Key Elementary School public or private?
Key Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Muscogee County.
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