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Enrollment
346
Elementary
DISTRICT 718 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAULDING COUNTY·NCES 130402001477
Union Elementary School
206 Highway 101 S, Temple, GA 30179 · (770) 443-4191 · Paulding County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL346 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 50% of Georgia public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
176 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 74%
Community
1
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 | 2 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
41.1%
GA avg 40.1% . -4.3pp since 2021
Math
53.4%
GA avg 44.6% . -2.0pp since 2021
What 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 53 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.1% | 53.4% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 55.9% |
| 2022-23 | 43.8% | 59.1% |
| 2021-22 | 45.4% | 55.4% |
% 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
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Union Elementary School
Union Elementary School's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Elementary School this school | 346 | 50.9% | 47.9% |
| Armuchee Elementary School Armuchee | 401 | 54.9% | 52.6% |
| Woodstation Elementary School Rock Spring | 415 | 52.8% | 40.8% |
| Battlefield Elementary School Fort Oglethorpe | 426 | 49.8% | 40.2% |
| Ringgold Elementary School Ringgold | 445 | 56.0% | 42.4% |
| Clayton Elementary School Canton | 290 | 43.4% | 55.4% |
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 Union Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Paulding County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #383 of 1,208 | #4 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #342 of 1,215 ▼ 24 | #3 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #442 of 1,215 ▼ 96 | #4 of 19 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.1pp | #229 of 1,183 | #5 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 346 | #1,187 of 1,324 | #18 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #261 of 1,301 | #3 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.9% | #1,002 of 1,301 | #19 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.9% | #1,029 of 1,312 | #15 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.4% | #147 of 854 | #1 of 9 |
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
346
-112 (-24%) vs 2020
+49% since 1990-91, when it was 232
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 346 | 29 | 11.9:1 | 51% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 30.1 | 13.3:1 | 60% (238) |
| 2022-23 | 465 | 32.6 | 14.3:1 | 42% (195) |
| 2020-21 | 458 | 32 | 14.3:1 | 45% (208) |
| 2017-18 | 464 | 31 | 15.0:1 | 42% (193) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 33 | 14.3:1 | 48% (225) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 30 | 15.3:1 | 55% (251) |
| 2000-01 | 476 | 26 | 18.3:1 | 34% (162) |
| 1990-91 | 232 | 15 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Union Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (464 to 346); teachers down 6% (31 to 29).
About Union Elementary School
Union Elementary School is a public small elementary school in Temple, Georgia. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 346 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 605 students for elementary schools in Georgia.
Union Elementary School is one of the 34 schools that make up Paulding County (31,426 students in total).
Of every 100 students at Union Elementary School, about 79 are White. The school is also 8% Black, 8% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. The White share of the county population is lower, at 63%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Union Elementary School scores 36%.
On staff are 29 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1, 1.4 more students per teacher than here. Union Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 51%. The average for public schools in Paulding County is similar, at 51%.
Union Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 50% of Georgia public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Union Elementary School would be expected to post about 51.1%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 47.9%.
In the surrounding county, Paulding County, median household income comes to about $98,031, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 34 public schools and about 31,426 students.
A public school about 1.6 miles away, Carl Scoggins Sr. Middle School, is the closest to Union Elementary School. Union Elementary School has 2 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Union Elementary School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The school's enrollment decreased 24% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 14.3:1 to 11.9:1.
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Paulding County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
178,909
Census ACS
Median income
$98,031
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
31,426 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Paulding County
- North Paulding High SchoolHigh · 3,015 students
- Paulding County High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- East Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- South Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Hiram High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at CrossroadElementary · 1,389 students
Other schools in Temple
- Temple High SchoolHigh · 868 students
- Temple Middle SchoolMiddle · 682 students
- Temple Elementary SchoolElementary · 666 students
- Providence Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Villa Rica MiddleMiddle · 481 students
Other Union Elementary schools
25 other US public schools in 14 states are named Union Elementary. Union Elementary School is the 13th largest of the 26.
- Union Elementary SchoolMacon, GA · 475 students
- Union Elementary SchoolWest Chester, OH · 682 students
- Union ElementaryShallotte, NC · 654 students
- Union Elementary SchoolGallatin, TN · 620 students
- Union Elementary SchoolUnion, OH · 539 students
Nearby schools
- Carl Scoggins Sr. Middle School1.6 mi · 809
- Villa Rica Middle4.1 mi · 481
- New Georgia Elementary School5.3 mi · 336
- Sara M. Ragsdale Elementary5.8 mi · 637
- Lillian C. Poole Elementary School6.4 mi · 460
- South Paulding Middle School6.6 mi · 507
Frequently asked questions
About Union Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Union Elementary School?
Union Elementary School enrolls approximately 346 students in grades PK-05.
Is Union Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Union Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Union Elementary School?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at Union Elementary School.
How diverse is Union Elementary School?
Union Elementary School reports a student body of 79% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Union Elementary School public or private?
Union Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Paulding County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.