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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 520 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY·NCES 130186000866
Lithia Springs Elementary School
6946 Florence Dr, Lithia Springs, GA 30122 · (770) 651-4100 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 52% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
14.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
427 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
33.3%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.0pp since 2021
Math
42.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.3% | 42.2% |
| 2023-24 | 30.5% | 29.8% |
| 2022-23 | 34.6% | 31.9% |
| 2021-22 | 26.3% | 31.0% |
% 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
34.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Lithia Springs Elementary School
Lithia Springs Elementary School's state test result (34.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lithia Springs Elementary School this school | 500 | 85.4% | 34.1% |
| Sawyer Road Elementary School Marietta | 533 | 82.9% | 36.5% |
| Powers Ferry Elementary School Marietta | 475 | 90.3% | 27.5% |
| Beulah Elementary School Douglasville | 428 | 83.9% | 34.8% |
| New Holland Leadership Academy Gainesville | 573 | 83.9% | 30.2% |
| Garden City Elementary School Garden City | 597 | 90.6% | 31.5% |
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 Lithia Springs Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #693 of 1,208 | #13 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #573 of 1,215 ▲ 276 | #7 of 21 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #635 of 1,215 ▲ 132 | #10 of 21 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.1pp | #173 of 1,183 | #4 of 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #851 of 1,324 | #11 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #926 of 1,301 | #8 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #387 of 1,301 | #7 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.4% | #641 of 1,312 | #8 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.2% | #850 of 854 | #17 of 17 |
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
500
-14 (-3%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 539
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 500 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 85% (427) |
| 2023-24 | 508 | 37.8 | 13.4:1 | 92% (468) |
| 2022-23 | 512 | 37.6 | 13.6:1 | 81% (415) |
| 2020-21 | 514 | 40 | 12.8:1 | 77% (397) |
| 2017-18 | 501 | 36 | 13.9:1 | 82% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 37 | 14.5:1 | 81% (436) |
| 2010-11 | 486 | 40 | 12.2:1 | 76% (371) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 28 | 17.4:1 | 33% (163) |
| 1990-91 | 539 | 27 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lithia Springs Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (501 to 500); teachers down 3% (36 to 35).
About Lithia Springs Elementary School
Lithia Springs Elementary School is a public small elementary school in Lithia Springs, Georgia. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 500 students.
Douglas County is responsible for 35 schools, Lithia Springs Elementary School included, with 25,521 students in all.
A majority of students at Lithia Springs Elementary School, 52%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 28% Black, 13% White, and 4% multiracial. Douglas County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Lithia Springs Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
Teacher staffing is 35 full-time equivalents, or about 14.3 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in Georgia, the typical ratio is 13.3:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Lithia Springs Elementary School is 85%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Douglas County is 71%.
The allk12 Grade for Lithia Springs Elementary School is B-. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 52% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lithia Springs Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Georgia schools: 34.1% actual against 33.2% predicted.
Across Douglas County, median household income is about $82,984, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Lithia Springs Elementary School is among the 37 public schools in Douglas County.
The school nearest to Lithia Springs Elementary School is Turner Middle School, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Within five miles of Lithia Springs Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Lithia Springs Elementary School is 5th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES assigns Lithia Springs Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 514 to 500 over 4 years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 12.8:1 to 14.3:1.
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Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
147,888
Census ACS
Median income
$82,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
26,121 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas County
- Douglas County High SchoolHigh · 1,958 students
- New Manchester High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- Alexander High SchoolHigh · 1,830 students
- Chapel Hill High SchoolHigh · 1,646 students
- Lithia Springs Comprehensive High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- Chapel Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,036 students
Other schools in Lithia Springs
- Lithia Springs Comprehensive High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- Turner Middle SchoolMiddle · 742 students
- Factory Shoals Elementary SchoolElementary · 697 students
- Sweetwater Elementary SchoolElementary · 473 students
- D.E.L.T.A. STEAM AcademyElementary · 391 students
- Annette Winn Elementary SchoolElementary · 341 students
Other Lithia Springs Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Lithia Springs Elementary. Lithia Springs Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- LITHIA SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLVALRICO, FL · 609 students
Nearby schools
- Turner Middle School0.3 mi · 742
- Annette Winn Elementary School0.7 mi · 341
- D.E.L.T.A. STEAM Academy1.4 mi · 391
- Lithia Springs Comprehensive High School2.1 mi · 1,460
- Sweetwater Elementary School2.3 mi · 473
- Beulah Elementary School2.6 mi · 428
Frequently asked questions
About Lithia Springs Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lithia Springs Elementary School?
Lithia Springs Elementary School enrolls approximately 500 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lithia Springs Elementary School serve?
Lithia Springs Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lithia Springs Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lithia Springs Elementary School is approximately 14.3:1 (35 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lithia Springs Elementary School?
Lithia Springs Elementary School reports a student body of 13% White, 52% Hispanic, 28% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Lithia Springs Elementary School?
Lithia Springs Elementary School is overseen by Douglas County in Douglas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.