Nahunta Elementary School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% 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 27 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Nahunta Elementary School
Located at 9110 Main St S, in Nahunta, Georgia, Nahunta Elementary School is a rural-scale 6-8 campus that hosts 260 students (grades 4 through 6), operated by Brantley County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Nahunta Elementary School sits 66% smaller than that benchmark.
Within Brantley County, which oversees 7 schools and 3,375 students, Nahunta Elementary School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Nahunta Elementary School logs that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder looks like 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Brantley County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Nahunta Elementary School shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Brantley County (around 89%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, Nahunta Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 52.6%, a residual of +26.9 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brantley County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,239 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Brantley County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,375 students), of which Nahunta Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Nahunta Primary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Nahunta Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.8%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nahunta Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 260 students in 2018 to 260 in 2025.
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