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Enrollment
654
Elementary
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENRY COUNTY·NCES 130282003747
Rock Spring Elementary
1550 Stroud Rd, McDonough, GA 30252 · (770) 957-6851 · Henry County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL654 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% 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.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
13.3:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
333 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 129 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (129).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
39.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.2pp since 2021
Math
38.4%
GA avg 44.6% . +2.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 38.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.5% | 35.6% |
| 2022-23 | 29.6% | 31.7% |
| 2021-22 | 34.8% | 36.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
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 Rock Spring Elementary
Rock Spring Elementary's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Spring Elementary this school | 654 | 50.9% | 38.3% |
| Temple Elementary School Temple | 666 | 50.0% | 47.9% |
| Euchee Creek Elementary School Grovetown | 705 | 45.0% | 56.5% |
| C. A. Roberts Elementary School Dallas | 668 | 54.5% | 43.8% |
| Matilda Harris Elementary School Kingsland | 662 | 46.4% | 62.0% |
| Poplar Road Elementary School Sharpsburg | 656 | 48.2% | 39.9% |
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 Rock Spring Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Henry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #586 of 1,208 | #6 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #650 of 1,215 ▲ 60 | #8 of 28 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #489 of 1,215 ▲ 194 | #5 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.2pp | #515 of 1,183 | #13 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 654 | #472 of 1,324 | #10 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #630 of 1,301 | #7 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.7% | #235 of 1,301 | #1 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.9% | #1,027 of 1,312 | #27 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #343 of 854 | #8 of 19 |
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
654
-92 (-12%) vs 2020
+2% since 2010-11, when it was 641
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 654 | 49.1 | 13.3:1 | 51% (333) |
| 2023-24 | 704 | 47.7 | 14.8:1 | 58% (408) |
| 2022-23 | 692 | 43.5 | 15.9:1 | 40% (276) |
| 2020-21 | 746 | 48 | 15.5:1 | 31% (230) |
| 2017-18 | 777 | 49 | 15.9:1 | 37% (285) |
| 2015-16 | 715 | 44 | 16.3:1 | 35% (253) |
| 2010-11 | 641 | 37 | 17.3:1 | 37% (237) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rock Spring Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (777 to 654); teachers unchanged (49 to 49.1).
About Rock Spring Elementary
Rock Spring Elementary is a public elementary school run by Henry County in McDonough, Georgia. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 654 students enrolled.
Rock Spring Elementary is in Henry County, a district with 43,012 students across 53 schools.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Rock Spring Elementary, at 46%. Other groups make up 31% Black, 12% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. County-wide, 34% of Henry County residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 67% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 49.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.3 students per teacher. That matches the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia fairly closely. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 51% of students. The average for public schools in Henry County is 63%.
Rock Spring Elementary is graded C by allk12, scoring above 30% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Rock Spring Elementary's average proficiency rate on state tests of 38.3% is 12.7 points below the 51.0% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Across Henry County, the median household income is $83,146, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. In all, Henry County has 54 public schools and roughly 43,102 students.
Nearest public school: New Hope Elementary, about 2.7 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes 4 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Rock Spring Elementary at 5th of 9.
Its location is classified as Rural: Fringe by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school enrolled 654 students in 2024-25, 92 fewer than the 746 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.3:1.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Henry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
249,960
Census ACS
Median income
$83,146
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
43,102 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Henry County
- Dutchtown HighHigh · 1,821 students
- Union Grove HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Ola High SchoolHigh · 1,586 students
- Eagle's Landing High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Locust Grove HighHigh · 1,572 students
- Stockbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
Other schools in McDonough
- Union Grove HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Ola High SchoolHigh · 1,586 students
- Eagle's Landing High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- McDonough High SchoolHigh · 1,359 students
- Ola Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,039 students
- Union Grove MiddleMiddle · 1,033 students
Other Rock Spring Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Rock Spring Elementary. Rock Spring Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Rock Spring Elementary SchoolRock Spring, GA · 419 students
Nearby schools
- New Hope Elementary2.7 mi · 621
- Ola Elementary School3.5 mi · 866
- Ola High School3.8 mi · 1,586
- Ola Middle School4.1 mi · 1,039
- Rocky Plains Elementary School5.0 mi · 576
- Unity Grove Elementary School6.1 mi · 882
Frequently asked questions
About Rock Spring ElementaryHow many students attend Rock Spring Elementary?
Rock Spring Elementary enrolls approximately 654 students in grades PK-05.
Is Rock Spring Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rock Spring Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Rock Spring Elementary have?
Rock Spring Elementary employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Rock Spring Elementary?
Student demographics at Rock Spring Elementary are roughly 46% White, 12% Hispanic, 31% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Rock Spring Elementary in?
Rock Spring Elementary is part of Henry County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.