Marshpoint Elementary School

Marshpoint Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Savannah, Georgia, operated by Savannah-Chatham County, with 603 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Savannah-Chatham County runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 36,355 students. Marshpoint Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Marshpoint Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 22% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Chatham County as a whole is about 47% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Marshpoint Elementary School has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Marshpoint Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Chatham County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Marshpoint Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Chatham County indicate median household income runs about $71,097, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Chatham County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), Marshpoint Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Coastal Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marshpoint Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Marshpoint Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 29% since 2018, when it stood at 845 (now 603). Black enrollment moved from 31% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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