Southwest Elementary School

Located at 6020 Ogeechee Rd, in Savannah, Georgia, Southwest Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school that instructs 769 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Savannah-Chatham County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Southwest Elementary School sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 58 schools in Savannah-Chatham County (36,355 students total), Southwest Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Southwest Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 27% Hispanic, 11% White, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Southwest Elementary School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Southwest Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Southwest Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.8%; this one delivers 25.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Chatham County put median household income runs about $71,097, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Chatham County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), Southwest Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southwest Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Southwest Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southwest Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 774 students in 2018 compared to 769 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 16% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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