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Enrollment
518
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLQUITT COUNTY·NCES 130138001975
Odom Elementary School
2902 Sardis Church Rd, Moultrie, GA 31788 · (229) 324-3313 · Colquitt County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL518 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
518 students
DISTRICT 93% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 61 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Odom Elementary School→Willie J. Williams Middle School→CA Gray Junior High School→Colquitt County High School
Based on grade levels within Colquitt County. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
21.6%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.3pp since 2021
Math
30.8%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.6% | 30.8% |
| 2023-24 | 24.2% | 31.9% |
| 2022-23 | 16.9% | 31.6% |
| 2021-22 | 22.9% | 32.8% |
% 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
27.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% 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 Odom Elementary School
Odom Elementary School's state test result (27.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odom Elementary School this school | 518 | 100.0% | 27.4% |
| Jackson Elementary School Roswell | 489 | 100.0% | 36.3% |
| Cornelia Elementary School Cornelia | 491 | 100.0% | 23.4% |
| Elm Street Elementary Rome | 558 | 100.0% | 32.8% |
| Hollydale Elementary School Marietta | 526 | 100.0% | 26.3% |
| West Central Elementary School Rome | 595 | 100.0% | 29.1% |
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 Odom Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Colquitt County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #873 of 1,208 | #7 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #841 of 1,215 ▼ 48 | #6 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #961 of 1,215 ▼ 13 | #9 of 10 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.6pp | #309 of 1,183 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 518 | #815 of 1,324 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #538 of 1,301 | #8 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.8% | #562 of 1,301 | #8 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #143 of 1,312 | #8 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #252 of 854 | #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
518
-23 (-4%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 561
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 518 | 39.7 | 13.1:1 | 100% (518) |
| 2023-24 | 523 | 39.8 | 13.1:1 | 100% (523) |
| 2022-23 | 521 | 39.2 | 13.3:1 | 97% (506) |
| 2020-21 | 541 | 42 | 12.9:1 | 97% (524) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 42.2 | 15.2:1 | 95% (609) |
| 2015-16 | 663 | 41 | 16.2:1 | 95% (630) |
| 2010-11 | 644 | 40 | 16.1:1 | 87% (562) |
| 2000-01 | 611 | 26 | 23.5:1 | 71% (434) |
| 1990-91 | 561 | 30 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Odom Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (641 to 518); teachers down 6% (42.2 to 39.7).
About Odom Elementary School
As a mid-sized elementary school, Odom Elementary School serves students in Moultrie, Georgia. There are 518 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
Odom Elementary School reports to Colquitt County, which has 13 schools and 8,767 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Odom Elementary School is 59%, a majority. It is also 22% White, 14% Black, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Colquitt County is roughly 21% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 58%.
For every teacher at Odom Elementary School, there are about 13.1 students; the school has 39.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. There are 518 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 100% of enrollment.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 25.7% for Odom Elementary School. The school posts 27.4%, 1.8 points above the prediction.
The school's county is Colquitt County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $49,341 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 16% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 19%. Public schools in Colquitt County number 13, with about 8,767 students.
Cox Elementary School is about 7.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within ten miles of Odom Elementary School, there are 7 other public schools. On average proficiency, Odom Elementary School is 6th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 23 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Colquitt County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,224
Census ACS
Median income
$49,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
8,767 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Colquitt County
- Colquitt County High SchoolHigh · 1,932 students
- CA Gray Junior High SchoolHigh · 1,389 students
- Willie J. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolElementary · 614 students
- Norman Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 581 students
- Wright Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
Other schools in Moultrie
- CA Gray Junior High SchoolHigh · 1,389 students
- Willie J. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolElementary · 614 students
- Wright Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cox Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Okapilco Elementary SchoolElementary · 360 students
Other Odom Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Odom Elementary. Odom Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Odom Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 322 students
- Odom Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 286 students
Nearby schools
- Cox Elementary School7.4 mi · 466
- Wright Elementary School7.7 mi · 554
- Sunset Elementary School7.9 mi · 614
- Colquitt County High School8.2 mi · 1,932
- Willie J. Williams Middle School8.5 mi · 1,285
- Stringfellow Elementary School8.5 mi · 220
Frequently asked questions
About Odom Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Odom Elementary School?
Odom Elementary School enrolls approximately 518 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Odom Elementary School serve?
Odom Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Odom Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Odom Elementary School.
How diverse is Odom Elementary School?
Odom Elementary School reports a student body of 22% White, 59% Hispanic, 14% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Odom Elementary School?
Odom Elementary School is overseen by Colquitt County in Colquitt County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.