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Norman Park 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 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% 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 18 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Norman Park Elementary School
Norman Park Elementary School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Norman Park, Georgia, one of the schools within Colquitt County. Current enrollment sits at 581 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Colquitt County runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,767 students. Norman Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Norman Park Elementary School logs that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 35% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Colquitt County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Norman Park Elementary School logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Norman Park Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.7%; Norman Park Elementary School posts 44.1%, +18.5 points above that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Colquitt County put median household income runs about $49,341, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Colquitt County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,767 students), Norman Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Colquitt County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Norman Park Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.4%.
Norman Park Elementary School operates from a low-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 665 students in 2018 compared to 581 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.
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