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Enrollment
336
Elementary
DISTRICT 718 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAULDING COUNTY·NCES 130402001473
New Georgia Elementary School
5800 Mulberry Rock Rd, Villa Rica, GA 30180 · (770) 445-3597 · Paulding County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL336 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Georgia public elementary schools
- BTest 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.
- B-Three-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
12.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
175 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 74%
Community
1
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 | 2 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
35.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -0.2pp since 2021
Math
46.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +4.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.5% | 46.7% |
| 2023-24 | 43.2% | 50.3% |
| 2022-23 | 34.6% | 46.7% |
| 2021-22 | 35.8% | 42.6% |
% 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
41.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 New Georgia Elementary School
New Georgia Elementary School's state test result (41.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Georgia Elementary School this school | 336 | 52.1% | 41.7% |
| Kingsland Elementary School Kingsland | 371 | 57.1% | 69.2% |
| Odyssey Charter School Newnan | 359 | 48.5% | N/A |
| Woodbine Elementary School Woodbine | 339 | 59.0% | 66.2% |
| Skyview Elementary School Lizella | 423 | 57.2% | 45.0% |
| Elm Street Elementary School Newnan | 477 | 55.1% | 57.5% |
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 New Georgia Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Paulding County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #513 of 1,208 | #8 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #474 of 1,215 ▼ 64 | #8 of 19 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #579 of 1,215 ▼ 131 | #9 of 19 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.9pp | #609 of 1,183 | #5 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 336 | #1,205 of 1,324 | #19 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #386 of 1,301 | #6 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #409 of 1,301 | #14 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.1% | #1,016 of 1,312 | #14 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.8% | #197 of 386 | #6 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
336
-24 (-7%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 617
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 336 | 27 | 12.4:1 | 52% (175) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 27.1 | 12.7:1 | 56% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 427 | 29 | 14.7:1 | 49% (208) |
| 2020-21 | 360 | 25 | 14.4:1 | 47% (168) |
| 2017-18 | 306 | 23.4 | 13.1:1 | 55% (167) |
| 2015-16 | 335 | 25 | 13.4:1 | 53% (176) |
| 2010-11 | 373 | 25 | 14.9:1 | 42% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 478 | 31 | 15.4:1 | 23% (108) |
| 1990-91 | 617 | 31 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Georgia Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (306 to 336); teachers up 15% (23.4 to 27).
About New Georgia Elementary School
New Georgia Elementary School is a small elementary school serving families in Villa Rica, Georgia. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 336 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Georgia enroll about 605 students on average.
New Georgia Elementary School is in Paulding County, a district with 31,426 students across 34 schools.
More than half of the students at New Georgia Elementary School are White (55%). The next largest groups are 24% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 62%.
Its staff includes 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.4 students per teacher. The gap from the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is 0.9 students per teacher. Roughly 52% of students at New Georgia Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Paulding County is similar, at 51%.
On the allk12 Grade, New Georgia Elementary School lands at C+, ahead of 38% of Georgia public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For New Georgia Elementary School, the prediction is 50.4% and the result is 41.7%.
In Paulding County, home to about 178,909 people, median household income comes to about $98,031, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 34 public schools in the county, enrolling about 31,426, New Georgia Elementary School among them.
New Georgia Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is South Paulding Middle School, about 1.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 7 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, New Georgia Elementary School is 1st of 9 on proficiency.
The school's locale code, Rural: Fringe, means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% drop, from 360 to 336. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 14.4:1 in 2020-21 to 12.4:1 in 2024-25.
New Georgia Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Paulding County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
178,909
Census ACS
Median income
$98,031
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
31,426 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Paulding County
- North Paulding High SchoolHigh · 3,015 students
- Paulding County High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- East Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- South Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Hiram High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at CrossroadElementary · 1,389 students
Other schools in Villa Rica
- Villa Rica High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Ithica ElementaryElementary · 809 students
- Bay Springs Middle SchoolMiddle · 723 students
- Glanton-Hindsman ElementaryElementary · 691 students
- Mirror Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Villa Rica Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
Nearby schools
- South Paulding Middle School1.6 mi · 507
- Nebo Elementary School3.7 mi · 874
- Irma C. Austin Middle School3.8 mi · 782
- Carl Scoggins Sr. Middle School3.8 mi · 809
- Connie Dugan Elementary School3.9 mi · 647
- South Paulding High School4.0 mi · 1,881
Frequently asked questions
About New Georgia Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at New Georgia Elementary School?
New Georgia Elementary School enrolls approximately 336 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does New Georgia Elementary School serve?
New Georgia Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at New Georgia Elementary School?
Approximately 12.4:1 students per teacher at New Georgia Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at New Georgia Elementary School?
Student demographics at New Georgia Elementary School are roughly 55% White, 13% Hispanic, 24% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is New Georgia Elementary School in?
New Georgia Elementary School is part of Paulding County.
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