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Enrollment
455
Elementary
DISTRICT 550 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COWETA COUNTY·NCES 130150000755
Western Elementary School
1730 Welcome Rd, Newnan, GA 30263 · (770) 254-2790 · Coweta County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
299 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 48 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
39.4%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.5pp since 2021
Math
59.0%
GA avg 44.6% . +5.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 up about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.4% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.6% | 60.3% |
| 2022-23 | 38.8% | 51.6% |
| 2021-22 | 42.9% | 53.6% |
% 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
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Western Elementary School
Western Elementary School's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Elementary School this school | 455 | 65.7% | 54.6% |
| Mamie Lou Gross Elementary School Woodbine | 454 | 68.9% | 62.4% |
| Langston Road Elementary School Perry | 473 | 62.2% | 63.5% |
| St. Simons Elementary School Saint Simons Island | 462 | 69.0% | 62.2% |
| Lillian C. Poole Elementary School Dallas | 460 | 61.7% | 34.8% |
| Atkinson Elementary School Newnan | 398 | 64.8% | 34.1% |
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 Western Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Coweta County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #263 of 1,208 | #8 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #260 of 1,215 ▼ 12 | #8 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #484 of 1,215 ▼ 212 | #12 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #675 of 1,183 | #6 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #960 of 1,324 | #11 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #645 of 1,301 | #10 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #493 of 1,301 | #9 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.7% | #878 of 1,312 | #5 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.1% | #277 of 386 | #8 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
455
+93 (+26%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 455 | 34 | 13.4:1 | 66% (299) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 71% (323) |
| 2022-23 | 437 | 34 | 12.8:1 | 59% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 362 | 31 | 11.7:1 | 60% (216) |
| 2017-18 | 433 | 33 | 13.1:1 | 65% (280) |
| 2015-16 | 421 | 27 | 15.6:1 | 60% (251) |
| 2010-11 | 444 | 32 | 13.9:1 | 61% (272) |
| 2000-01 | 468 | 32 | 14.6:1 | 30% (140) |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 25 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Western Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (433 to 455); teachers up 3% (33 to 34).
About Western Elementary School
Students in Newnan, Georgia, attend Western Elementary School, a small elementary school. It had 455 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 605 students for elementary schools in Georgia.
Across its 29 schools, Coweta County enrolls 23,064 students. Western Elementary School is one of those schools.
The share of White students at Western Elementary School is 57%, a majority. After that, the student body is 25% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Census figures show Coweta County is about 70% White. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at Western Elementary School are from different groups.
For every teacher at Western Elementary School, there are about 13.4 students; the school has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. There are 299 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 66% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Coweta County is 46%.
In Georgia, Western Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 54.6% actual against a predicted 43.4%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Coweta County show that the median household earns about $95,548 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Across Coweta County, 31 public schools serve about 23,423 students.
A public school about 3.2 miles away, Smokey Road Middle School, is the closest to Western Elementary School. Western Elementary School has 6 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Western Elementary School ranks 3rd on proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Rural: Fringe.
A 26% rise took enrollment from 362 in 2020-21 to 455 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 11.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.4:1.
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Coweta County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
152,852
Census ACS
Median income
$95,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
31
23,423 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Coweta County
- East Coweta High SchoolHigh · 3,001 students
- Newnan High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
- Northgate High SchoolHigh · 2,142 students
- Welch Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,012 students
- Newnan Crossing Elementary SchoolElementary · 912 students
- Blake Bass Middle SchoolMiddle · 887 students
Other schools in Newnan
- Newnan High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
- Northgate High SchoolHigh · 2,142 students
- Welch Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,012 students
- Newnan Crossing Elementary SchoolElementary · 912 students
- Brooks ElementaryElementary · 835 students
- Madras Middle SchoolMiddle · 754 students
Other Western Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Western Elementary. Western Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Western Elementary SchoolGeorgetown, KY · 623 students
- Western Elementary SchoolLexington, OH · 308 students
- Western Elementary SchoolCentertown, KY · 221 students
- Western Elementary SchoolLatham, OH · 170 students
Nearby schools
- Smokey Road Middle School3.2 mi · 563
- Arnco-Sargent Elementary School3.4 mi · 357
- Evans Middle School4.0 mi · 736
- Ruth Hill Elementary School4.3 mi · 346
- Elm Street Elementary School4.7 mi · 477
- Newnan High School4.8 mi · 2,214
Frequently asked questions
About Western Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Western Elementary School?
Western Elementary School enrolls approximately 455 students in grades PK-05.
Is Western Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Western Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Western Elementary School?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Western Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Western Elementary School?
Student demographics at Western Elementary School are roughly 57% White, 10% Hispanic, 25% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Western Elementary School in?
Western Elementary School is part of Coweta County.
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