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Enrollment
422
Elementary
DISTRICT 602 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BULLOCH COUNTY·NCES 130063002298
Portal Elementary School
328 Grady St S, Portal, GA 30450 · (912) 842-8340 · Bulloch County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL422 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% 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.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+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
14.6:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
398 students
DISTRICT 88% · 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 | 40 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
40.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.6pp since 2021
Math
60.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +12.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.9% | 60.2% |
| 2023-24 | 41.6% | 54.2% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 44.6% |
| 2021-22 | 42.5% | 47.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 29% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 Portal Elementary School
Portal Elementary School's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portal Elementary School this school | 422 | 94.3% | 47.4% |
| Wheeler County Elementary School Alamo | 433 | 100.0% | 44.9% |
| Treutlen Elementary School Soperton | 499 | 100.0% | 47.3% |
| Hogansville Elementary School Hogansville | 469 | 94.0% | 43.8% |
| McBean Elementary School Hephzibah | 384 | 100.0% | 31.5% |
| Crawford County Primary School Roberta | 346 | 100.0% | N/A |
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 Portal Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Bulloch County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #391 of 1,208 | #3 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #248 of 1,215 ▲ 102 | #2 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #449 of 1,215 ▲ 35 | #4 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.4pp | #353 of 1,183 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 422 | #1,048 of 1,324 | #9 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,002 of 1,301 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.9% | #683 of 1,301 | #5 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #534 of 1,312 | #5 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.9% | #195 of 386 | #3 of 6 |
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
422
+48 (+13%) vs 2020
+23% since 2000-01, when it was 342
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 422 | 28.9 | 14.6:1 | 94% (398) |
| 2023-24 | 430 | 30.4 | 14.1:1 | 84% (360) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 31.4 | 13.6:1 | 72% (307) |
| 2020-21 | 374 | 28 | 13.4:1 | 70% (261) |
| 2017-18 | 384 | 26.4 | 14.6:1 | 76% (292) |
| 2015-16 | 380 | 26 | 14.6:1 | 73% (279) |
| 2010-11 | 422 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 66% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 342 | 24 | 14.3:1 | 74% (253) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Portal Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (384 to 422); teachers up 9% (26.4 to 28.9).
About Portal Elementary School
Portal Elementary School operates as a small elementary school in Portal, Georgia. It enrolls 422 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 30% below the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Across its 15 schools, Bulloch County enrolls 10,999 students. Portal Elementary School is one of those schools.
About 62% of the student body at Portal Elementary School is White. Other students are 27% Black, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Bulloch County residents are about 62% White, a similar share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 28.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.6:1. Across elementary schools in Georgia, the average ratio is 13.3:1. Roughly 94% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Georgia public elementary schools, Portal Elementary School outscored 85%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Georgia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 28.6%. Portal Elementary School posts 47.4%, 18.8 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
For Bulloch County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $58,810 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Portal Elementary School, Bulloch County has 16 public schools.
Portal Middle/High School is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within ten miles of Portal Elementary School, there are 4 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Portal Elementary School ranks 1st of 8 on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Portal Elementary School as Rural: Distant.
The school's enrollment increased 13% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 14.6:1, from 13.4:1.
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Bulloch County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,683
Census ACS
Median income
$58,810
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
11,194 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bulloch County
- Statesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,801 students
- Southeast Bulloch High SchoolHigh · 1,118 students
- Southeast Bulloch Middle SchoolMiddle · 884 students
- Brooklet Elementary SchoolElementary · 808 students
- Langston Chapel Middle SchoolMiddle · 718 students
- Julia P. Bryant Elementary SchoolElementary · 712 students
Other Portal Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Portal Elementary. Portal Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- PORTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLA VISTA, NE · 422 students
Nearby schools
- Portal Middle/High School0.4 mi · 523
- William James Middle School7.7 mi · 536
- Julia P. Bryant Elementary School9.7 mi · 712
- Mattie Lively Elementary School9.7 mi · 607
- Statesboro STEAM Academy10.8 mi · 195
- Metter Elementary School11.3 mi · 994
Frequently asked questions
About Portal Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Portal Elementary School?
Portal Elementary School enrolls approximately 422 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Portal Elementary School serve?
Portal Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Portal Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Portal Elementary School is approximately 14.6:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Portal Elementary School?
Student demographics at Portal Elementary School are roughly 62% White, 5% Hispanic, 27% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Portal Elementary School in?
Portal Elementary School is part of Bulloch County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.