Enrollment
326
Elementary
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MUSCOGEE COUNTY·NCES 130387001444
South Columbus Elementary School
1964 Torch Hill Rd, Columbus, GA 31903 · (706) 683-8833 · Muscogee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL326 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 17% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
16.1:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
326 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 74%
Community
0
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 | 44 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
20.2%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.5pp since 2021
Math
16.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +4.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.2% | 16.5% |
| 2023-24 | 23.9% | 15.4% |
| 2022-23 | 16.9% | 18.2% |
| 2021-22 | 12.7% | 12.0% |
% 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
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% 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 South Columbus Elementary School
South Columbus Elementary School's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Columbus Elementary School this school | 326 | 100.0% | 19.6% |
| Austell Elementary School Austell | 367 | 100.0% | 37.7% |
| Conley Hills Elementary School East Point | 377 | 100.0% | 20.5% |
| Kelley Lake Elementary School Decatur | 302 | 94.4% | 25.2% |
| International Academy of Smyrna Smyrna | 328 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Bayvale Elementary School Augusta | 389 | 100.0% | 16.3% |
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 South Columbus Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Muscogee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #1,065 of 1,208 | #19 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #1,129 of 1,215 ▼ 8 | #19 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #1,009 of 1,215 ▼ 51 | #17 of 32 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #319 of 1,183 | #5 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 326 | #1,218 of 1,324 | #29 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,237 of 1,301 | #26 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #574 of 1,301 | #14 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #325 of 1,312 | #14 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.0% | #31 of 854 | #2 of 22 |
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
326
-91 (-22%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 701
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 326 | 20.2 | 16.1:1 | 100% (326) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 24.5 | 13.2:1 | 100% (324) |
| 2022-23 | 359 | 29 | 12.4:1 | 97% (347) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 97% (403) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 31.5 | 16.9:1 | 94% (504) |
| 2015-16 | 558 | 29 | 19.2:1 | 99% (555) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 34 | 13.4:1 | 90% (411) |
| 2000-01 | 530 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 92% (488) |
| 1990-91 | 701 | 39 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for South Columbus Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (534 to 326); teachers down 36% (31.5 to 20.2).
About South Columbus Elementary School
South Columbus Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Columbus, Georgia. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 326 students. That puts enrollment 46% below the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia.
South Columbus Elementary School is part of a district of 54 schools: Muscogee County, with 30,091 students.
At South Columbus Elementary School, 53% of students are Black. The remaining students are 37% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, South Columbus Elementary School scores 58%.
South Columbus Elementary School has 20.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 16.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 100% at South Columbus Elementary School. That is higher than the 86% average for public schools in Muscogee County.
South Columbus Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 17% of Georgia public elementary schools.
Schools in Georgia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 25.7%. South Columbus Elementary School scores 19.6%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Muscogee County show that the median household earns about $58,073 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 15%. Across Muscogee County, 57 public schools serve about 30,110 students.
Eddy Middle School is about 0.1 miles from South Columbus Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, South Columbus Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 22%, from 417 to 326.
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Muscogee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
203,711
Census ACS
Median income
$58,073
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
30,110 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Muscogee County
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Other schools in Columbus
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Nearby schools
- Eddy Middle School0.1 mi · 448
- Dorothy Height Elementary School0.7 mi · 419
- Baker Middle School0.9 mi · 631
- Key Elementary School1.2 mi · 263
- Spencer High School1.3 mi · 1,016
- Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School1.9 mi · 487
Frequently asked questions
About South Columbus Elementary SchoolHow many students attend South Columbus Elementary School?
South Columbus Elementary School enrolls approximately 326 students in grades PK-05.
Is South Columbus Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
South Columbus Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at South Columbus Elementary School?
Approximately 16.1:1 students per teacher at South Columbus Elementary School.
How diverse is South Columbus Elementary School?
South Columbus Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 37% Hispanic, 53% Black, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees South Columbus Elementary School?
South Columbus Elementary School is overseen by Muscogee County in Muscogee County.
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