Stringfellow Elementary School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 20 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stringfellow Elementary School
Stringfellow Elementary School operates as a tiny elementary campus in Moultrie, Georgia, overseen by Colquitt County. Current enrollment sits at 220 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 64% leaner than the state mean of about 605.
Across the 13 schools in Colquitt County (8,767 students total), Stringfellow Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Stringfellow Elementary School lists that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Hispanic, 10% White, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Stringfellow Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stringfellow Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 26.2%, a residual of +0.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Colquitt County put median household income runs about $49,341, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Colquitt County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,767 students), Stringfellow Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Willie J. Williams Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stringfellow Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.
The campus sits in a town-based setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 220 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 63% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.
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