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Enrollment
554
Elementary
DISTRICT 520 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS COUNTY·NCES 130186002549
Mirror Lake Elementary School
2613 Tyson Rd, Villa Rica, GA 30180 · (770) 651-4300 · Douglas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of Georgia public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
17.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
375 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 93 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
61%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
36.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.2pp since 2021
Math
39.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +1.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.9% | 39.7% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 34.1% | 31.0% |
| 2021-22 | 38.1% | 38.5% |
% 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
36.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% 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%.
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 Mirror Lake Elementary School
Mirror Lake Elementary School's state test result (36.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirror Lake Elementary School this school | 554 | 67.7% | 36.5% |
| Fayetteville Elementary School Fayetteville | 507 | 64.7% | 49.1% |
| Flippen Elementary School McDonough | 559 | 69.6% | 32.0% |
| Woodland Elementary School Stockbridge | 491 | 68.4% | 29.1% |
| Pate's Creek Elementary School Stockbridge | 497 | 67.0% | 22.5% |
| Spring Hill Elementary School Fayetteville | 661 | 72.3% | 51.1% |
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 Mirror Lake Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #623 of 1,208 | #9 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #624 of 1,215 ▼ 44 | #8 of 21 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #542 of 1,215 ▲ 219 | #7 of 21 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #758 of 1,183 | #14 of 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #721 of 1,324 | #6 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #1,290 of 1,301 | #23 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.8% | #446 of 1,301 | #10 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.7% | #859 of 1,312 | #18 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.4% | #111 of 386 | N/A |
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
554
+56 (+11%) vs 2020
-5% since 2010-11, when it was 583
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 554 | 31 | 17.9:1 | 68% (375) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 36 | 16.3:1 | 70% (408) |
| 2022-23 | 605 | 36.1 | 16.8:1 | 63% (383) |
| 2020-21 | 498 | 31 | 16.1:1 | 46% (229) |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 33.1 | 14.1:1 | 51% (238) |
| 2015-16 | 552 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 44% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 583 | 46 | 12.7:1 | 34% (196) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mirror Lake Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (468 to 554); teachers down 6% (33.1 to 31).
About Mirror Lake Elementary School
Mirror Lake Elementary School is an elementary school in Villa Rica, Georgia, and it is part of Douglas County. The school's 554 students are in pre-K through 5.
Mirror Lake Elementary School belongs to Douglas County, a district of 35 schools and 25,521 students.
Mirror Lake Elementary School's enrollment is 58% Black. Other groups include 16% White, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 5% Asian. By comparison, Douglas County residents are about 50% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Mirror Lake Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
The count of teachers at Mirror Lake Elementary School is 31 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 17.9:1. Among elementary schools in Georgia, the typical ratio is 13.3:1. The school counts 375 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 68%. That is close to the 71% average for public schools in Douglas County.
allk12 grades Mirror Lake Elementary School a C. The grade compares the school only with Georgia public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Mirror Lake Elementary School is 5.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (36.5% versus 42.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Georgia.
Douglas County has about 147,888 residents, and median household income is about $82,984, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 37 public schools in Douglas County, with a combined enrollment of about 26,121.
Glanton-Hindsman Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Mirror Lake Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Mirror Lake Elementary School as Town: Fringe, meaning in a town close to an urbanized area.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 554 was 11% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 498. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.9:1) than in 2020-21 (16.1:1).
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Villa Rica
- Villa Rica High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Ithica ElementaryElementary · 809 students
- Bay Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 723 students
- Glanton-Hindsman ElementaryElementary · 691 students
- Villa Rica Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- New Georgia Elementary SchoolElementary · 336 students
Other Mirror Lake Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mirror Lake Elementary. Mirror Lake Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- MIRROR LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPLANTATION, FL · 639 students
- Mirror Lake Elementary SchoolFEDERAL WAY, WA · 491 students
Nearby schools
- Glanton-Hindsman Elementary2.0 mi · 691
- Villa Rica Elementary School2.8 mi · 513
- Mason Creek Middle School3.0 mi · 853
- Mason Creek Elementary School3.3 mi · 513
- Winston Elementary School3.5 mi · 297
- Villa Rica High School3.9 mi · 1,681
Frequently asked questions
About Mirror Lake Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mirror Lake Elementary School?
Mirror Lake Elementary School enrolls approximately 554 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mirror Lake Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mirror Lake Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Mirror Lake Elementary School have?
Mirror Lake Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Mirror Lake Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mirror Lake Elementary School are roughly 16% White, 11% Hispanic, 58% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Mirror Lake Elementary School in?
Mirror Lake Elementary School is part of Douglas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.