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Mason Creek Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mason Creek Elementary School
Mason Creek Elementary School is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Winston, Georgia, operated by Douglas County, with 513 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Mason Creek Elementary School is one of 35 schools operated by Douglas County, a district that instructs 25,521 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Mason Creek Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 32% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Mason Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -1.3 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,984 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Douglas County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,121 students), Mason Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Mason Creek Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mason Creek Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mason Creek Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 37.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 544 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 32% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Mason Creek Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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