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If you had an hour of school board time for Sunset Elementary School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
614
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLQUITT COUNTY·NCES 130138000594
Sunset Elementary School
698 US Highway 319 S, Moultrie, GA 31768 · (229) 890-6184 · Colquitt County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL614 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
614 students
DISTRICT 93% · 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 | 80 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Sunset Elementary School→Willie J. Williams Middle School→CA Gray Junior High School→Colquitt County High School
Based on grade levels within Colquitt County. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
32.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -7.4pp since 2021
Math
55.6%
GA avg 44.6% . -5.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.7% | 55.6% |
| 2023-24 | 43.1% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 55.3% |
| 2021-22 | 40.1% | 61.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 Sunset Elementary School
Sunset Elementary School's state test result (48.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Elementary School this school | 614 | 100.0% | 48.9% |
| Golden Isles Elementary School Brunswick | 619 | 100.0% | 46.0% |
| Lyons Primary School Lyons | 571 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Putnam County Elementary School Eatonton | 606 | 100.0% | 35.8% |
| Satilla Elementary School Douglas | 661 | 100.0% | 28.4% |
| Bacon County Primary School Alma | 551 | 100.0% | N/A |
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 Sunset Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Colquitt County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.9% | #367 of 1,208 | #3 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #309 of 1,215 ▲ 7 | #3 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.7% | #647 of 1,215 ▼ 195 | #4 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.6pp | #79 of 1,183 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 614 | #560 of 1,324 | #1 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #594 of 1,301 | #9 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.2% | #145 of 1,301 | #1 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #141 of 1,312 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.2% | #734 of 854 | #10 of 10 |
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
614
+61 (+11%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
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 | 614 | 46.5 | 13.2:1 | 100% (614) |
| 2023-24 | 594 | 44.5 | 13.3:1 | 78% (465) |
| 2022-23 | 600 | 43 | 13.9:1 | 97% (581) |
| 2020-21 | 553 | 42 | 13.2:1 | 97% (536) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 40.8 | 15.7:1 | 95% (609) |
| 2015-16 | 660 | 43 | 15.3:1 | 95% (627) |
| 2010-11 | 695 | 44 | 15.8:1 | 64% (446) |
| 2000-01 | 621 | 29 | 21.4:1 | 49% (302) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 29 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunset Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (641 to 614); teachers up 14% (40.8 to 46.5).
About Sunset Elementary School
Sunset Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Moultrie, Georgia, one of the schools in Colquitt County. The school has 614 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5.
Colquitt County is the district for Sunset Elementary School. It has 13 schools and 8,767 students.
The largest group at Sunset Elementary School is White students, at 43%. Smaller groups are 26% Black, 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Colquitt County is roughly 56% White. The diversity index for Sunset Elementary School is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 46.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.2 students per teacher. The 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia is close to this figure. Roughly 100% of students at Sunset Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Sunset Elementary School is 25.7%. It actually posts 48.9%, which is 23.2 points higher and in the top 10% of Georgia schools.
The school is in Colquitt County, where median household income comes to about $49,341, roughly 16% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 19%. Colquitt County counts 13 public schools with about 8,767 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Wright Elementary School, is about 3.7 miles. Other public schools within five miles: 3. On average proficiency, Sunset Elementary School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Locale data from NCES put Sunset Elementary School in rural territory close to an urban area (Rural: Fringe).
Enrollment increased 11% over 4 years, reaching 614 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Sunset Elementary School lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Colquitt County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,224
Census ACS
Median income
$49,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
8,767 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Colquitt County
- Colquitt County High SchoolHigh · 1,932 students
- CA Gray Junior High SchoolHigh · 1,389 students
- Willie J. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Norman Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 581 students
- Wright Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Odom Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Other schools in Moultrie
- CA Gray Junior High SchoolHigh · 1,389 students
- Willie J. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Wright Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Odom Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
- Cox Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Okapilco Elementary SchoolElementary · 360 students
Other Sunset Elementary schools
23 other US public schools in 13 states are named Sunset Elementary. Sunset Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 24.
- SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 1,192 students
- Sunset ElementaryLivermore, CA · 759 students
- Sunset ElementaryAIRWAY HEIGHTS, WA · 634 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolBrentwood, TN · 616 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolEdmond, OK · 535 students
Nearby schools
- Wright Elementary School3.7 mi · 554
- Willie J. Williams Middle School4.7 mi · 1,285
- Cox Elementary School4.7 mi · 466
- Stringfellow Elementary School5.0 mi · 220
- CA Gray Junior High School6.1 mi · 1,389
- Colquitt County High School7.4 mi · 1,932
Frequently asked questions
About Sunset Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Sunset Elementary School?
Sunset Elementary School enrolls approximately 614 students in grades PK-05.
Is Sunset Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sunset Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Sunset Elementary School have?
Sunset Elementary School employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sunset Elementary School?
At Sunset Elementary School, the student body is approximately 43% White, 23% Hispanic, 26% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Sunset Elementary School in?
Sunset Elementary School is part of Colquitt County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.