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Enrollment
447
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND COUNTY·NCES 130438001563
Meadowbrook Elementary School
3630 Goldfinch Dr, Augusta, GA 30906 · (706) 796-4915 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL447 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
447 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 74%
Community
5
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 | 58 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
17.7%
GA avg 40.1% . +10.3pp since 2021
Math
13.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.7% | 13.2% |
| 2023-24 | 13.7% | 12.3% |
| 2022-23 | 10.0% | 8.3% |
| 2021-22 | 7.5% | 9.2% |
% 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
13.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% 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%.
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 Meadowbrook Elementary School
Meadowbrook Elementary School's state test result (13.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowbrook Elementary School this school | 447 | 100.0% | 13.5% |
| Lee Elementary School College Park | 438 | 100.0% | 35.8% |
| Cooper-Carver Elementary School Dawson | 440 | 100.0% | 27.5% |
| Fairington Elementary School Lithonia | 461 | 100.0% | 14.9% |
| West Clayton Elementary School College Park | 464 | 100.0% | 10.9% |
| Marbut Elementary School Lithonia | 427 | 100.0% | 24.5% |
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 Meadowbrook Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #1,164 of 1,208 | #20 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.2% | #1,167 of 1,215 no change | #17 of 29 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.7% | #1,068 of 1,215 ▲ 89 | #14 of 29 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.1pp | #254 of 1,183 | #7 of 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 447 | #980 of 1,324 | #15 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #609 of 1,301 | #17 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.5% | #1,163 of 1,301 | #27 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #370 of 1,312 | #14 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.2% | #224 of 386 | #4 of 10 |
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
447
-48 (-10%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 838
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 447 | 33.7 | 13.3:1 | 100% (447) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 34.8 | 13.4:1 | 100% (467) |
| 2022-23 | 497 | 37 | 13.4:1 | 98% (487) |
| 2020-21 | 495 | 33 | 15.0:1 | 98% (485) |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 24.5 | 16.9:1 | 96% (398) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 28 | 18.5:1 | 97% (500) |
| 2010-11 | 592 | 36 | 16.4:1 | 94% (556) |
| 2000-01 | 756 | 40 | 18.9:1 | 81% (616) |
| 1990-91 | 838 | 45 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meadowbrook Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (413 to 447); teachers up 38% (24.5 to 33.7).
About Meadowbrook Elementary School
A small elementary school in Augusta, Georgia, Meadowbrook Elementary School is part of Richmond County. Enrollment stands at 447 students, covering pre-K through 5. It has 26% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Georgia (about 605).
Meadowbrook Elementary School is one school in a 52-school district, Richmond County, which enrolls 30,573 students.
Of every 100 students at Meadowbrook Elementary School, about 88 are Black. The remaining students are 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% White. Census figures show Richmond County is about 56% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 23, compared with 70 nationally.
Meadowbrook Elementary School has 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 13.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 100%.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Meadowbrook Elementary School, the prediction is 25.7% and the result is 13.5%.
Census data for Richmond County show the median household earns about $55,637 a year, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 17%. Public schools in Richmond County number 58, with about 31,674 students.
A public school about 1.5 miles away, Jamestown Elementary School, is the closest to Meadowbrook Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Meadowbrook Elementary School ranks 4th on proficiency.
Meadowbrook Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Mid-size.
From 495 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 447 by 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 15.0:1 to 13.3:1.
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Richmond County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
206,069
Census ACS
Median income
$55,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
58
31,674 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Richmond County
- Academy of Richmond County High SchoolHigh · 1,178 students
- Cross Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,152 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 1,088 students
- Hephzibah High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- Butler High SchoolHigh · 878 students
- Glenn Hills High SchoolHigh · 839 students
Other schools in Augusta
- Academy of Richmond County High SchoolHigh · 1,178 students
- Cross Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,152 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 1,088 students
- Butler High SchoolHigh · 878 students
- Glenn Hills High SchoolHigh · 839 students
- Belair Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
Other Meadowbrook Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 11 states are named Meadowbrook Elementary. Meadowbrook Elementary School is the 10th largest of the 13.
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARYGOLDEN VALLEY, MN · 792 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGAINESVILLE, FL · 791 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFORT LAUDERDALE, FL · 693 students
- MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARYGLADSTONE, MO · 529 students
- Meadowbrook Elementary SchoolNOVI, MI · 518 students
Nearby schools
- Jamestown Elementary School1.5 mi · 327
- Glenn Hills Elementary School1.5 mi · 370
- Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School1.6 mi · 433
- Glenn Hills High School1.6 mi · 839
- Glenn Hills Middle School1.9 mi · 706
- Tobacco Road Elementary School2.2 mi · 411
Frequently asked questions
About Meadowbrook Elementary SchoolHow large is Meadowbrook Elementary School?
Meadowbrook Elementary School enrolls approximately 447 students in grades PK-05.
Is Meadowbrook Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Meadowbrook Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Meadowbrook Elementary School have?
Meadowbrook Elementary School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Meadowbrook Elementary School?
Student demographics at Meadowbrook Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 6% Hispanic, 88% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Meadowbrook Elementary School in?
Meadowbrook Elementary School is part of Richmond County.
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