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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123000461
Mount Zion Elementary School
2984 Mount Zion Rd, Jonesboro, GA 30236 · (770) 968-2935 · Clayton County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest 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.
- AThree-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
14.9:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
491 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 167 | 34% |
| Grade 4 | 158 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 166 | 34% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
18.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.3pp since 2021
Math
20.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +15.2pp 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 21 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 15 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 20.7% |
| 2023-24 | 23.9% | 17.4% |
| 2022-23 | 16.9% | 15.8% |
| 2021-22 | 10.7% | 5.5% |
% 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
20.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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 Mount Zion Elementary School
Mount Zion Elementary School's state test result (20.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Zion Elementary School this school | 491 | 100.0% | 20.0% |
| Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School Columbus | 487 | 100.0% | 9.7% |
| Swint Elementary School Jonesboro | 544 | 100.0% | 24.2% |
| Riverdale Elementary School Riverdale | 559 | 100.0% | 21.7% |
| Lee Street Elementary School Jonesboro | 515 | 100.0% | 9.6% |
| International Studies Elementary Charter School Albany | 470 | 96.4% | 34.5% |
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 Mount Zion Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #1,050 of 1,208 | #25 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #1,051 of 1,215 ▲ 43 | #24 of 37 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #1,059 of 1,215 ▼ 103 | #25 of 37 ▼ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.3pp | #93 of 1,183 | #6 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #877 of 1,324 | #30 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,068 of 1,301 | #32 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.5% | #842 of 1,301 | #18 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #76 of 1,312 | #1 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.4% | #113 of 854 | #10 of 34 |
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
491
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 1,013
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
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 | 491 | 33 | 14.9:1 | 100% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 34 | 14.8:1 | 94% (472) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 34 | 14.8:1 | 90% (455) |
| 2020-21 | 508 | 36 | 14.1:1 | 93% (472) |
| 2017-18 | 676 | 38.5 | 17.6:1 | 99% (672) |
| 2015-16 | 646 | 33 | 19.6:1 | 100% (643) |
| 2010-11 | 589 | 34 | 17.3:1 | 87% (514) |
| 2000-01 | 926 | 50 | 18.5:1 | 51% (472) |
| 1990-91 | 1,013 | 52 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Zion Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (676 to 491); teachers down 14% (38.5 to 33).
About Mount Zion Elementary School
Mount Zion Elementary School serves students in Jonesboro, Georgia, as a low-enrollment elementary school. Federal data show 491 students enrolled in grades 3 through 5 in 2024-25.
Clayton County (68 schools, 51,326 students) runs Mount Zion Elementary School.
The student body at Mount Zion Elementary School is 68% Black. The school is also 27% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among Clayton County residents, the Black share is about 69%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Mount Zion Elementary School scores 47%.
Classroom staffing at Mount Zion Elementary School totals 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Mount Zion Elementary School is about 100%.
Mount Zion Elementary School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 21% of Georgia public elementary schools.
Test results at Mount Zion Elementary School are 5.7 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (20.0% actual, 25.7% predicted).
American Community Survey estimates for Clayton County show that the median household earns about $59,806 a year, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Clayton County has 73 public schools with about 63,156 students, including Mount Zion Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Mount Zion Elementary School is closest to Mount Zion Primary, about 0.1 miles away. Mount Zion Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 40.7% on proficiency, and Mount Zion Elementary School is below that at 20.0%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 491, from 508 in 2020-21.
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Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
Other schools in Jonesboro
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
- Mount Zion High SchoolHigh · 1,232 students
- Jonesboro Middle SchoolMiddle · 895 students
- M. D. Roberts Middle SchoolMiddle · 894 students
- Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center forHigh · 887 students
Other Mount Zion Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Mount Zion Elementary. Mount Zion Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Mount Zion Elementary SchoolCarrollton, GA · 640 students
Nearby schools
- Mount Zion Primary0.1 mi · 620
- Martha Ellen Stilwell School for the Performing Arts0.8 mi · 494
- Mount Zion High School1.0 mi · 1,232
- Roberta T. Smith Elementary School1.8 mi · 720
- Rex Mill Middle School1.8 mi · 904
- Elite Scholars Academy School2.2 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Zion Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mount Zion Elementary School?
Mount Zion Elementary School enrolls approximately 491 students in grades 03-05.
What grades does Mount Zion Elementary School serve?
Mount Zion Elementary School serves grades 03-05.
How many students per teacher at Mount Zion Elementary School?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at Mount Zion Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Mount Zion Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mount Zion Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 27% Hispanic, 68% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Mount Zion Elementary School in?
Mount Zion Elementary School is part of Clayton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.