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Nebo Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 32 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 up about 2 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Nebo Elementary School
Nebo Elementary School, an average-sized elementary-level community in Dallas, Georgia, overseen by Paulding County, works with 874 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 44% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.
Within Paulding County, which oversees 34 schools and 31,426 students, Nebo Elementary School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Nebo Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Black, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Nebo Elementary School reports 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Nebo Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at Nebo Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Paulding County's rate of about 51%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Nebo Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.3%; this one delivers 34.7%.
Across the wider county, Paulding County reports that median household income runs about $98,031, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Paulding County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,426 students), of which Nebo Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: South Paulding Middle School, around 2.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nebo Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Nebo Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.7%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 27%: 689 students in 2018 compared to 874 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 74% to 57% over that span.
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Paulding County at a glance
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