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Enrollment
349
Elementary
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MUSCOGEE COUNTY·NCES 130387001427
Wesley Heights Elementary School
1801 Amber Dr, Columbus, GA 31907 · (706) 569-3733 · Muscogee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL349 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest 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.
- BThree-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
13.2:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
349 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 36 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
14.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +1.2pp since 2021
Math
20.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +7.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 14.5% | 20.5% |
| 2023-24 | 22.1% | 22.8% |
| 2022-23 | 22.1% | 19.9% |
| 2021-22 | 13.3% | 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
18.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% 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 Wesley Heights Elementary School
Wesley Heights Elementary School's state test result (18.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley Heights Elementary School this school | 349 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| DeKalb Brilliance Academy Decatur | 357 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Columbia Elementary School Decatur | 364 | 100.0% | 16.2% |
| Rainbow Elementary School Decatur | 337 | 100.0% | 20.4% |
| Jamestown Elementary School Hephzibah | 327 | 100.0% | 15.5% |
| T. J. Perkerson Elementary School Atlanta | 338 | 100.0% | 18.1% |
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 Wesley Heights Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Muscogee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #1,077 of 1,208 | #21 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #1,056 of 1,215 ▼ 71 | #15 of 32 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #1,138 of 1,215 ▼ 135 | #24 of 32 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.4pp | #428 of 1,183 | #8 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 349 | #1,183 of 1,324 | #26 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #589 of 1,301 | #10 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.4% | #1,143 of 1,301 | #33 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #318 of 1,312 | #7 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.2% | #209 of 854 | #13 of 22 |
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
349
-65 (-16%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 642
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 349 | 26.5 | 13.2:1 | 100% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 24.8 | 15.9:1 | 100% (395) |
| 2022-23 | 405 | 24.5 | 16.5:1 | 97% (391) |
| 2020-21 | 414 | 25 | 16.6:1 | 97% (400) |
| 2017-18 | 443 | 23.5 | 18.9:1 | 94% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 401 | 22 | 18.2:1 | 99% (398) |
| 2010-11 | 406 | 29 | 14.0:1 | 86% (348) |
| 2000-01 | 471 | 30 | 15.7:1 | 82% (385) |
| 1990-91 | 642 | 31 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wesley Heights Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (443 to 349); teachers up 13% (23.5 to 26.5).
About Wesley Heights Elementary School
Wesley Heights Elementary School sits in Columbus, Georgia, and is classified as an elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 349 students. The school's enrollment is 42% smaller than the 605 average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Wesley Heights Elementary School is part of a district of 54 schools: Muscogee County, with 30,091 students.
Most students at Wesley Heights Elementary School are Black: 87% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 6% multiracial and 5% Hispanic. The school's Black share is 40 points above the 47% share among Muscogee County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Wesley Heights Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 24%.
The teaching staff at Wesley Heights Elementary School is 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.2:1. Elementary schools in Georgia have a similar average ratio of 13.3:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%. For comparison, public schools in Muscogee County average 86%.
Wesley Heights Elementary School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 15% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Wesley Heights Elementary School is 6.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (18.9% versus 25.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Georgia.
Census estimates describe Muscogee County this way: median household income is about $58,073, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Muscogee County number 57 and enroll about 30,110.
Kendrick High School is the closest public school, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Wesley Heights Elementary School ranks 3rd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Wesley Heights Elementary School had 414 students in 2020-21 and 349 in 2024-25, a 16% decrease. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.6:1 to 13.2:1.
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Muscogee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
203,711
Census ACS
Median income
$58,073
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
57
30,110 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Muscogee County
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Other schools in Columbus
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Shaw High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Hardaway High SchoolHigh · 1,067 students
- Jordan Vocational High SchoolHigh · 1,040 students
- Spencer High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
Nearby schools
- Kendrick High School0.7 mi · 840
- Fort Middle School0.8 mi · 440
- Georgetown Elementary School0.8 mi · 394
- East Columbus Magnet Academy0.9 mi · 395
- Forrest Road Elementary School1.0 mi · 278
- Rothschild Leadership Academy School1.5 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About Wesley Heights Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wesley Heights Elementary School?
Wesley Heights Elementary School enrolls approximately 349 students in grades PK-05.
Is Wesley Heights Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wesley Heights Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Wesley Heights Elementary School have?
Wesley Heights Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Wesley Heights Elementary School?
Student demographics at Wesley Heights Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 5% Hispanic, 87% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Wesley Heights Elementary School?
Wesley Heights Elementary School is overseen by Muscogee County in Muscogee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.