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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Moreland Road Elementary?
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Enrollment
490
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRIFFIN-SPALDING COUNTY·NCES 130252003447
Moreland Road Elementary
455 Moreland Rd, Griffin, GA 30224 · (770) 229-3755 · Spalding County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL490 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% 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.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
13.7:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
424 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 | 66 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
21.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +0.2pp since 2021
Math
26.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +7.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.5% | 26.8% |
| 2023-24 | 22.1% | 22.1% |
| 2022-23 | 27.3% | 23.2% |
| 2021-22 | 21.3% | 19.3% |
% 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
25.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% 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 Moreland Road Elementary
Moreland Road Elementary's state test result (25.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moreland Road Elementary this school | 490 | 86.5% | 25.5% |
| Cowan Road Elementary School Griffin | 557 | 89.2% | 16.4% |
| Lakeview Academy Milledgeville | 575 | 86.8% | 30.5% |
| Dallas Elementary School Dallas | 513 | 79.7% | 27.1% |
| Fred A. Toomer Elementary School Atlanta | 513 | 90.3% | 32.7% |
| Lake Park Elementary School Albany | 494 | 84.6% | 48.4% |
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 Moreland Road Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Spalding County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #915 of 1,208 | #5 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #925 of 1,215 ▲ 76 | #6 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #967 of 1,215 ▲ 35 | #5 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.8pp | #477 of 1,183 | #5 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 490 | #881 of 1,324 | #3 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #738 of 1,301 | #6 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.3% | #433 of 1,301 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.5% | #628 of 1,312 | #9 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.9% | #466 of 854 | #7 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
490
+37 (+8%) vs 2020
-12% since 2010-11, when it was 558
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 490 | 35.8 | 13.7:1 | 87% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 446 | 33.1 | 13.5:1 | 82% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 433 | 32.8 | 13.2:1 | 98% (426) |
| 2020-21 | 453 | 34 | 13.3:1 | 62% (283) |
| 2017-18 | 556 | 33.7 | 16.5:1 | 82% (458) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 32 | 17.1:1 | 72% (393) |
| 2010-11 | 558 | 33 | 16.9:1 | 65% (363) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Moreland Road Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (556 to 490); teachers up 6% (33.7 to 35.8).
About Moreland Road Elementary
Moreland Road Elementary is an elementary school in Griffin, Georgia, according to federal school records. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 490 students.
Griffin-Spalding County counts 18 schools and 9,350 students, including Moreland Road Elementary.
At 55%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Moreland Road Elementary combined. The school is also 26% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 36%. The chance that two students picked at random at Moreland Road Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
Moreland Road Elementary employs 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.7:1. Across elementary schools in Georgia, the average ratio is about 13.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 87% in 2024-25.
Moreland Road Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 20% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Moreland Road Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Georgia schools: 25.5% actual against 32.6% predicted.
Within Spalding County, median household income is about $62,071, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 14%. Federal data list 18 public schools in Spalding County, with a combined enrollment of about 9,350.
The next-closest public school is Carver Road Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Moreland Road Elementary. On proficiency, Moreland Road Elementary is ahead of the 23.8% nearby average, ranking 4th of 9.
Locale data from NCES put Moreland Road Elementary in a town close to an urbanized area (Town: Fringe).
The number of students grew from 453 to 490 over 4 years.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Spalding County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
68,892
Census ACS
Median income
$62,071
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
9,350 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Griffin-Spalding County
- Griffin High SchoolHigh · 1,505 students
- Spalding High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Futral Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 600 students
- Cowan Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Rehoboth Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 543 students
- Cowan Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
Other schools in Griffin
- Griffin High SchoolHigh · 1,505 students
- Spalding High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Futral Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 600 students
- Cowan Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Rehoboth Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 543 students
- Cowan Road Middle SchoolMiddle · 530 students
Nearby schools
- Carver Road Middle School0.1 mi · 435
- Anne Street Elementary School3.2 mi · 352
- Griffin High School3.3 mi · 1,505
- Crescent Road Elementary School3.3 mi · 429
- Orrs Elementary School3.9 mi · 467
- Futral Road Elementary School4.2 mi · 600
Frequently asked questions
About Moreland Road ElementaryHow many students attend Moreland Road Elementary?
Moreland Road Elementary enrolls approximately 490 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Moreland Road Elementary serve?
Moreland Road Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Moreland Road Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Moreland Road Elementary is approximately 13.7:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Moreland Road Elementary?
At Moreland Road Elementary, the student body is approximately 26% White, 11% Hispanic, 55% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Moreland Road Elementary public or private?
Moreland Road Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Griffin-Spalding County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.