Parkway Elementary School

Parkway Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus in Evans, Georgia, run under Columbia County. The school enrolls 795 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% larger than the state mean of about 605.

Within Columbia County, which oversees 31 schools and 28,964 students, Parkway Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Parkway Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 13% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Parkway Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Columbia County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Parkway Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.2%, the actual is 75.3%, a residual of +8.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Columbia County) shows that median household income runs about $95,592, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Columbia County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,518 students), Parkway Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

SAIL Charter Academy - School for Arts-Infused Learning is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkway Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkway Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 64.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parkway Elementary School has climbed 47%, going from 541 students in 2018 to 795 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 65% to 59%.

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