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Pine Street Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pine Street Elementary School
Located at 500 Sigman Rd NW, in Conyers, Georgia, Pine Street Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that caters to 679 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Rockdale County.
Rockdale County comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 15,342 students; Pine Street Elementary School is among them.
Demographically, Pine Street Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 65%. Beyond that, the school reports 23% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Pine Street Elementary School reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Rockdale County (around 88%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pine Street Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.8%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of +3.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, Rockdale County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,247, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Rockdale County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,355 students), of which Pine Street Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Conyers Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Street Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Street Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.4%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Pine Street Elementary School's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 651 (now 679). The Black share of enrollment increased from 60% to 65% over that span.
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