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Enrollment
689
Elementary
DISTRICT 602 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BULLOCH COUNTY·NCES 130063000288
Sallie Zetterower Elementary School
1200 Cawana Rd, Statesboro, GA 30461 · (912) 212-8800 · Bulloch County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Georgia public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
13.7:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
689 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 | 39 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 128 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 114 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (114).
Student demographics
61%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
25.6%
GA avg 40.1% . -9.0pp since 2021
Math
36.9%
GA avg 44.6% . +0.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 9 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.6% | 36.9% |
| 2023-24 | 28.5% | 34.2% |
| 2022-23 | 30.3% | 32.4% |
| 2021-22 | 34.6% | 36.2% |
% 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
29.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Sallie Zetterower Elementary School
Sallie Zetterower Elementary School's state test result (29.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sallie Zetterower Elementary School this school | 689 | 100.0% | 29.3% |
| Jones-Wheat Primary School Bainbridge | 664 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Blakeney Elementary Waynesboro | 726 | 100.0% | 25.5% |
| Frank Long Elementary School Hinesville | 685 | 100.0% | 35.6% |
| Sally Dailey Meadows Elementary School Vidalia | 622 | 100.0% | 25.4% |
| Hutto Elementary School Bainbridge | 790 | 100.0% | 34.9% |
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 Sallie Zetterower Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Bulloch County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #819 of 1,208 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #687 of 1,215 ▲ 59 | #7 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #860 of 1,215 ▼ 32 | #7 of 9 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.1pp | #175 of 1,183 | #2 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #394 of 1,324 | #3 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #730 of 1,301 | #4 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.7% | #453 of 1,301 | #2 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #55 of 1,312 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.2% | #767 of 854 | N/A |
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
689
-8 (-1%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 601
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 689 | 50.4 | 13.7:1 | 100% (689) |
| 2023-24 | 756 | 55.7 | 13.6:1 | 80% (605) |
| 2022-23 | 736 | 52.3 | 14.1:1 | 75% (554) |
| 2020-21 | 697 | 53 | 13.2:1 | 70% (489) |
| 2017-18 | 712 | 46 | 15.5:1 | 64% (454) |
| 2015-16 | 707 | 42 | 16.8:1 | 67% (475) |
| 2010-11 | 453 | 30 | 15.1:1 | 55% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 360 | 20 | 18.0:1 | 48% (171) |
| 1990-91 | 601 | 37 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sallie Zetterower Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (712 to 689); teachers up 10% (46 to 50.4).
About Sallie Zetterower Elementary School
In Statesboro, Georgia, part of Bulloch County, Sallie Zetterower Elementary School is an elementary school. Enrollment stands at 689 students, covering pre-K through 5.
Bulloch County enrolls 10,999 students in 15 schools, including Sallie Zetterower Elementary School.
The student body at Sallie Zetterower Elementary School is 57% Black. Smaller groups are 24% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Bulloch County's residents are about 28% Black, 28 points below the school's share. The diversity index for Sallie Zetterower Elementary School is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 13.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Sallie Zetterower Elementary School, which has 50.4. That is in line with the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Sallie Zetterower Elementary School is about 100%. The rate at public schools in Bulloch County averages 87%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Sallie Zetterower Elementary School lands at C, ahead of 33% of Georgia public elementary schools.
The model predicts 25.7% for a school in Georgia with Sallie Zetterower Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Sallie Zetterower Elementary School posts 29.3%.
The county, Bulloch County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $58,810, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. The county's public schools total 16, with about 11,194 students.
A public school about 1.7 miles away, Statesboro High School, is the closest to Sallie Zetterower Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 7 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 34.9% proficiency; Sallie Zetterower Elementary School posts 29.3%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Distant.
Enrollment at Sallie Zetterower Elementary School was 697 in 2020-21 and 689 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
The discussion board for Sallie Zetterower Elementary School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 schools in Statesboro
- Statesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,801 students
- Langston Chapel Middle SchoolMiddle · 718 students
- Julia P. Bryant Elementary SchoolElementary · 712 students
- Langston Chapel Elementary SchoolElementary · 647 students
- Mattie Lively Elementary SchoolElementary · 607 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
Nearby schools
- Statesboro High School1.7 mi · 1,801
- Mill Creek Elementary School2.4 mi · 602
- Statesboro STEAM Academy2.7 mi · 195
- Julia P. Bryant Elementary School3.5 mi · 712
- Langston Chapel Middle School3.6 mi · 718
- Langston Chapel Elementary School3.6 mi · 647
Frequently asked questions
About Sallie Zetterower Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sallie Zetterower Elementary School?
Sallie Zetterower Elementary School enrolls approximately 689 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sallie Zetterower Elementary School serve?
Sallie Zetterower Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Sallie Zetterower Elementary School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Sallie Zetterower Elementary School.
How diverse is Sallie Zetterower Elementary School?
Sallie Zetterower Elementary School reports a student body of 24% White, 9% Hispanic, 57% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Sallie Zetterower Elementary School in?
Sallie Zetterower Elementary School is part of Bulloch County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.