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If you could change one rule at Morningside Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
488
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON COUNTY·NCES 130288001229
Morningside Elementary School
1206 Morningside Dr, Perry, GA 31069 · (478) 988-6261 · Houston County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL488 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
488 students
DISTRICT 76% · 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 | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
44.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +11.8pp since 2021
Math
38.8%
GA avg 44.6% . -3.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 12 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.5% | 38.8% |
| 2023-24 | 43.3% | 41.6% |
| 2022-23 | 33.2% | 38.1% |
| 2021-22 | 32.7% | 42.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
42.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 Morningside Elementary School
Morningside Elementary School's state test result (42.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morningside Elementary School this school | 488 | 100.0% | 42.5% |
| Maxwell Elementary School Thomson | 436 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Crisp County Elementary School Cordele | 439 | 100.0% | 21.1% |
| West Point Elementary School West Point | 450 | 96.7% | 36.4% |
| Turner County Elementary School Ashburn | 564 | 100.0% | 16.8% |
| Garrett Elementary School Augusta | 435 | 100.0% | 21.2% |
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 Morningside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Houston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #499 of 1,208 | #13 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #642 of 1,215 ▼ 79 | #14 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #363 of 1,215 ▲ 81 | #10 of 19 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.0pp | #457 of 1,183 | #2 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 488 | #886 of 1,324 | #20 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #571 of 1,301 | #6 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.6% | #753 of 1,301 | #23 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #277 of 1,312 | #3 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.6% | #790 of 854 | #13 of 15 |
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
488
+24 (+5%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 404
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 488 | 37.2 | 13.1:1 | 100% (488) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 36 | 13.4:1 | 90% (436) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 36 | 14.0:1 | 84% (422) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | 33 | 14.1:1 | 81% (376) |
| 2017-18 | 501 | 34.5 | 14.5:1 | 97% (487) |
| 2015-16 | 481 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 97% (467) |
| 2010-11 | 416 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 71% (297) |
| 2000-01 | 247 | 17 | 14.5:1 | 47% (117) |
| 1990-91 | 404 | 25 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morningside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (501 to 488); teachers up 8% (34.5 to 37.2).
About Morningside Elementary School
Morningside Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Perry, Georgia. The school had 488 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Morningside Elementary School reports to Houston County, which has 38 schools and 30,939 students.
At 66%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Morningside Elementary School combined. Other students are 22% White, 7% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Houston County residents are about 32% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Morningside Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.
With 37.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Morningside Elementary School was 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Georgia have a similar average ratio of 13.3:1. Morningside Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 100%. Across public schools in Houston County, the average is 74%.
Morningside Elementary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 16.9 points (42.5% versus 25.7%), a top-10% result in Georgia on BeatsExpectations.
Houston County has these Census figures: median household income is about $80,698, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Morningside Elementary School is among the 39 public schools in Houston County.
The closest public school to Morningside Elementary School is Perry High School, about 0.9 miles away. Within five miles of Morningside Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Morningside Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Morningside Elementary School is in a town close to an urbanized area, a location NCES labels Town: Fringe.
The number of students climbed from 464 to 488 over 4 years.
The Morningside Elementary School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Houston County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
169,649
Census ACS
Median income
$80,698
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
30,939 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Houston County
- Houston County High SchoolHigh · 2,051 students
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,949 students
- Veterans High SchoolHigh · 1,940 students
- Warner Robins High SchoolHigh · 1,812 students
- Perry High SchoolHigh · 1,615 students
- Perry Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,164 students
Other schools in Perry
- Perry High SchoolHigh · 1,615 students
- Perry Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,164 students
- Kings Chapel Elementary SchoolElementary · 690 students
- Langston Road Primary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Matt Arthur Primary SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Tucker Elementary SchoolElementary · 486 students
Other Morningside Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 10 states are named Morningside Elementary. Morningside Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 16.
- Morningside Elementary SchoolAtlanta, GA · 722 students
- Morningside Elementary SchoolAlbany, GA · 331 students
- Morningside Elementary SchoolNEW BRAUNFELS, TX · 665 students
- MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPORT ST LUCIE, FL · 653 students
- Morningside ElementarySioux City, IA · 645 students
Nearby schools
- Perry High School0.9 mi · 1,615
- Tucker Elementary School1.2 mi · 486
- Perry Middle School1.7 mi · 1,164
- Langston Road Elementary School2.4 mi · 473
- Langston Road Primary School2.6 mi · 526
- Kings Chapel Elementary School3.4 mi · 690
Frequently asked questions
About Morningside Elementary SchoolHow large is Morningside Elementary School?
Morningside Elementary School enrolls approximately 488 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Morningside Elementary School serve?
Morningside Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Morningside Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Morningside Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Morningside Elementary School?
At Morningside Elementary School, the student body is approximately 22% White, 5% Hispanic, 66% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Morningside Elementary School in?
Morningside Elementary School is part of Houston County.
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