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Treutlen Elementary School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% 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 22 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Treutlen Elementary School
Treutlen Elementary School, a tight-knit elementary campus in Soperton, Georgia, part of Treutlen County, instructs 499 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 2 schools in Treutlen County (1,020 students total), Treutlen Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Treutlen Elementary School records that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 32% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Treutlen Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.7%; Treutlen Elementary School posts 47.3%, +21.6 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Treutlen County indicate median household income runs about $55,518, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Treutlen County's 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,020 students), Treutlen Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Treutlen Middle/High School, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Treutlen Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Treutlen Elementary School has shrank 16%, going from 591 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 40% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
Treutlen County at a glance
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