Parkwood Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Warner Robins, Georgia, Parkwood Elementary School enrolls 683 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Houston County.

Within Houston County, which oversees 38 schools and 30,939 students, Parkwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Parkwood Elementary School reports that 59% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 23% Hispanic, 11% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Houston County as a whole is about 32% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Houston County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Parkwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 23.3%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Houston County indicate median household income runs about $80,698, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Houston County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,939 students), Parkwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Northside High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parkwood Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 659 students in 2018 compared to 683 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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