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Enrollment
570
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123000470
Tara Elementary School
937 Mount Zion Rd, Morrow, GA 30260 · (770) 968-2915 · Clayton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL570 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
570 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 28 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
19.9%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.2pp since 2021
Math
17.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +4.9pp 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 18 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.9% | 17.8% |
| 2023-24 | 22.1% | 19.1% |
| 2022-23 | 20.1% | 18.2% |
| 2021-22 | 15.7% | 12.9% |
% 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
19.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
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 Tara Elementary School
Tara Elementary School's state test result (19.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tara Elementary School this school | 570 | 100.0% | 19.8% |
| Sanders Elementary School Austell | 626 | 100.0% | 32.4% |
| Goodyear Elementary School Brunswick | 515 | 100.0% | 21.9% |
| Lake Ridge Elementary School Riverdale | 498 | 100.0% | 22.9% |
| Compton Elementary School Powder Springs | 593 | 100.0% | 24.6% |
| Riverdale Elementary School Riverdale | 559 | 100.0% | 21.7% |
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 Tara Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #1,056 of 1,208 | #26 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #1,111 of 1,215 ▼ 55 | #31 of 37 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #1,019 of 1,215 ▼ 18 | #22 of 37 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #418 of 1,183 | #22 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 570 | #681 of 1,324 | #22 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #368 of 1,301 | #6 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.0% | #710 of 1,301 | #10 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #79 of 1,312 | #4 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.2% | #178 of 854 | #17 of 34 |
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
570
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 652
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 570 | 46 | 12.4:1 | 100% (570) |
| 2023-24 | 573 | 49 | 11.7:1 | 100% (573) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 41 | 14.2:1 | 90% (528) |
| 2020-21 | 572 | 45 | 12.7:1 | 93% (532) |
| 2017-18 | 742 | 49 | 15.1:1 | 99% (738) |
| 2015-16 | 709 | 42 | 16.9:1 | 100% (706) |
| 2010-11 | 572 | 44 | 13.0:1 | 98% (563) |
| 2000-01 | 961 | 55 | 17.5:1 | 75% (716) |
| 1990-91 | 652 | 40 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tara Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (742 to 570); teachers down 6% (49 to 46).
About Tara Elementary School
Tara Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Morrow, Georgia, one of the schools in Clayton County. It serves 570 students in pre-K through 5.
Clayton County runs 68 schools with a combined 51,326 students. Tara Elementary School is one of them.
Tara Elementary School's enrollment is 58% Black. The next largest groups are 37% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. In Clayton County overall, about 69% of residents are Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Tara Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 12.4:1, with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%.
Tara Elementary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 19.8% is 5.8 points below the 25.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Tara Elementary School is located in Clayton County, where median household income is about $59,806, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 73 public schools in Clayton County, with a combined enrollment of about 63,156.
Haynie Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Tara Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Tara Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (572) and 2024-25 (570).
Discussions about Tara Elementary School may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
Other schools in Morrow
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary SchoolElementary · 801 students
- Morrow Middle SchoolMiddle · 794 students
- Haynie Elementary SchoolElementary · 767 students
- William M. McGarrah Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Morrow Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
Other Tara Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Tara Elementary. Tara Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- TARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBRADENTON, FL · 582 students
Nearby schools
- Haynie Elementary School1.1 mi · 767
- Morrow Elementary School1.6 mi · 406
- Sankofa Montessori1.6 mi · 144
- Sequoyah Middle School1.6 mi · 765
- Kilpatrick Elementary School1.6 mi · 637
- Harper Elementary School1.8 mi · 690
Frequently asked questions
About Tara Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Tara Elementary School?
Tara Elementary School enrolls approximately 570 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Tara Elementary School serve?
Tara Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Tara Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Tara Elementary School is approximately 12.4:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Tara Elementary School?
Student demographics at Tara Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 37% Hispanic, 58% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Tara Elementary School public or private?
Tara Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clayton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.