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Alumni: what's one memory from Park Creek Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
604
Elementary
DISTRICT 610 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 130162002458
Park Creek Elementary School
1500 Hale Bowen Dr, Dalton, GA 30721 · (706) 428-7700 · Whitfield County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL604 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of Georgia public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+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
11.6:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
476 students
DISTRICT 71% · 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 | 60 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
Park Creek Elementary School→Hammond Creek Middle School
Based on grade levels within Dalton Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
34.1%
GA avg 40.1% . +1.5pp since 2021
Math
40.5%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 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 | 34.1% | 40.5% |
| 2023-24 | 43.1% | 37.7% |
| 2022-23 | 37.8% | 39.8% |
| 2021-22 | 32.6% | 42.2% |
% 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
37.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Park Creek Elementary School
Park Creek Elementary School's state test result (37.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Creek Elementary School this school | 604 | 78.8% | 37.2% |
| Montclair Elementary School Brookhaven | 590 | 83.6% | 14.5% |
| Sugar Hill Elementary Gainesville | 685 | 84.8% | 28.1% |
| Woodward Elementary School Brookhaven | 553 | 84.6% | 20.6% |
| Blue Ridge Elementary School Dalton | 632 | 85.3% | 22.0% |
| McEver Elementary School Gainesville | 487 | 85.6% | 23.5% |
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 Park Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Whitfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #611 of 1,208 | #12 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #613 of 1,215 ▲ 45 | #12 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #619 of 1,215 ▼ 168 | #12 of 19 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.1pp | #417 of 1,183 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 604 | #589 of 1,324 | #5 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #197 of 1,301 | #6 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.3% | #1,144 of 1,301 | #17 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.8% | #735 of 1,312 | #16 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #580 of 854 | #9 of 16 |
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
604
+20 (+3%) vs 2020
+30% since 2000-01, when it was 465
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 604 | 52.1 | 11.6:1 | 79% (476) |
| 2023-24 | 583 | 52.1 | 11.2:1 | 88% (514) |
| 2022-23 | 576 | 53.9 | 10.7:1 | 90% (519) |
| 2020-21 | 584 | 54 | 10.8:1 | 83% (485) |
| 2017-18 | 662 | 55.9 | 11.8:1 | 84% (554) |
| 2015-16 | 765 | 60 | 12.8:1 | 93% (713) |
| 2010-11 | 718 | 49 | 14.7:1 | 90% (646) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 37 | 12.6:1 | 81% (378) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Park Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (662 to 604); teachers down 7% (55.9 to 52.1).
About Park Creek Elementary School
Park Creek Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Dalton, Georgia. The school's 604 students are in pre-K through 5.
Dalton Public Schools enrolls 7,619 students, and its 10 schools include Park Creek Elementary School.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Park Creek Elementary School, with 87% of enrollment. Other groups include 7% White and 3% Black. By comparison, Whitfield County residents are about 37% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Park Creek Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 24%.
Dividing enrollment by its 52.1 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.6:1. Among elementary schools in Georgia, the typical ratio is 13.3:1. Eligible students account for 79% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program.
The allk12 Grade for Park Creek Elementary School is B-. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 46% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Park Creek Elementary School is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 37.2%. Predicted: 36.6%.
Whitfield County has about 103,598 residents, and median household income is about $67,070, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 33 public schools in Whitfield County, with a combined enrollment of about 19,570.
The shortest distance from Park Creek Elementary School to another public school is about 0.6 miles, to Dalton Jr. High School. The five-mile area around Park Creek Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Park Creek Elementary School comes in 3rd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal counts put enrollment at 584 in 2020-21 and 604 in 2024-25, a 3% gain.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Whitfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
103,598
Census ACS
Median income
$67,070
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
19,570 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dalton Public Schools
- Dalton High SchoolHigh · 1,919 students
- Hammond Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- City Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 707 students
- Brookwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 688 students
- Blue Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 632 students
- Westwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 605 students
Other schools in Dalton
- Dalton High SchoolHigh · 1,919 students
- Southeast Whitfield County High SchoolHigh · 1,453 students
- Hammond Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Coahulla Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- North Whitfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- City Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 707 students
Nearby schools
- Dalton Jr. High School0.6 mi · 517
- The Dalton Academy0.6 mi · 469
- Hammond Creek Middle School1.0 mi · 1,057
- Roan Elementary School1.1 mi · 421
- Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center1.2 mi · 9
- Blue Ridge Elementary School1.5 mi · 632
Frequently asked questions
About Park Creek Elementary SchoolHow large is Park Creek Elementary School?
Park Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 604 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Park Creek Elementary School serve?
Park Creek Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Park Creek Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Park Creek Elementary School is approximately 11.6:1 (52 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Park Creek Elementary School?
Student demographics at Park Creek Elementary School are roughly 7% White, 87% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Park Creek Elementary School in?
Park Creek Elementary School is part of Dalton Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.