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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Porter Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 506 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BIBB COUNTY·NCES 130042000247
Porter Elementary School
5802 School Rd, Macon, GA 31216 · (478) 779-4350 · Bibb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
215 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 23 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
17.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -4.3pp since 2021
Math
23.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +1.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.3% | 23.1% |
| 2023-24 | 18.1% | 17.1% |
| 2022-23 | 25.3% | 24.3% |
| 2021-22 | 21.6% | 22.1% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
20.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Porter Elementary School
Porter Elementary School's state test result (20.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porter Elementary School this school | 400 | 53.8% | 20.6% |
| Hickory Hills Elementary School Marietta | 440 | 60.7% | 45.8% |
| Chesnut Elementary School Dunwoody | 551 | 51.7% | 53.1% |
| A.L. Burruss Elementary School Marietta | 409 | 47.7% | 54.0% |
| Big Shanty Elementary School Kennesaw | 511 | 50.9% | 47.8% |
| Robert J. Burch Elementary School Tyrone | 528 | 53.2% | 54.2% |
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 Porter Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Bibb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #1,037 of 1,208 | #12 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #1,001 of 1,215 ▲ 100 | #11 of 21 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #1,076 of 1,215 ▲ 13 | #11 of 21 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.7pp | #294 of 1,183 | #6 of 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #1,093 of 1,324 | #19 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #492 of 1,301 | #5 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #281 of 1,301 | #2 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #1,005 of 1,312 | #21 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.3% | #731 of 854 | #13 of 17 |
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
400
+33 (+9%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 431
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 400 | 31 | 12.9:1 | 54% (215) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 29.5 | 14.5:1 | 46% (199) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 26 | 15.6:1 | 100% (406) |
| 2020-21 | 367 | 28 | 13.1:1 | 100% (367) |
| 2017-18 | 418 | 26.5 | 15.8:1 | 99% (415) |
| 2015-16 | 455 | 27 | 16.9:1 | 99% (451) |
| 2010-11 | 522 | 31 | 16.8:1 | 52% (269) |
| 2000-01 | 572 | 28 | 20.4:1 | 26% (147) |
| 1990-91 | 431 | 23 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Porter Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (418 to 400); teachers up 17% (26.5 to 31).
About Porter Elementary School
Porter Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Georgia, with an address in Macon. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 400 students. The school is 34% below the average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Within Bibb County, Porter Elementary School is one of 35 schools. The district enrolls 21,334 students.
About 40% of students at Porter Elementary School are Hispanic, the largest single group. The school is also 40% Black, 16% White, and 3% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 5%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
Porter Elementary School lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 12.9 students per teacher. That is in line with the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. About 54% of students at Porter Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Porter Elementary School is a bottom-10% school in Georgia on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 20.6% against a predicted 49.6%.
American Community Survey estimates for Bibb County show that the median household earns about $51,234 a year, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 20% of residents are in poverty. Bibb County has 41 public schools with about 23,725 students, including Porter Elementary School.
A public school about 1.1 miles away, Heard Elementary School, is the closest to Porter Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 7 other public schools. Porter Elementary School comes in 3rd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count rose 9% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Bibb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
156,578
Census ACS
Median income
$51,234
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
20%
Below federal line
Schools in county
41
23,725 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bibb County
- Howard High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 1,013 students
- Howard Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Rutland High SchoolHigh · 921 students
- Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 894 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 892 students
Other schools in Macon
- Academy For Classical EducationCombined · 1,808 students
- Howard High SchoolHigh · 1,145 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 1,013 students
- Howard Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Rutland High SchoolHigh · 921 students
- Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 894 students
Other Porter Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Porter Elementary. Porter Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Porter Elementary SchoolPORTER, TX · 931 students
- Porter ElementarySan Diego, CA · 590 students
- Porter Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 453 students
- Porter Elementary SchoolMESQUITE, TX · 445 students
- Porter Elementary SchoolHagerhill, KY · 431 students
Nearby schools
- Heard Elementary School1.1 mi · 596
- Rutland High School1.2 mi · 921
- Rutland Middle School1.3 mi · 849
- Southfield Elementary School3.1 mi · 630
- Skyview Elementary School3.9 mi · 423
- Bruce Elementary School4.9 mi · 411
Frequently asked questions
About Porter Elementary SchoolHow large is Porter Elementary School?
Porter Elementary School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Porter Elementary School serve?
Porter Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Porter Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Porter Elementary School.
How diverse is Porter Elementary School?
Porter Elementary School reports a student body of 16% White, 40% Hispanic, 40% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Porter Elementary School public or private?
Porter Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bibb County.
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