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Enrollment
395
Elementary
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARKE COUNTY·NCES 130117002104
Whit Davis Road Elementary School
1450 Whit Davis Rd, Athens, GA 30605 · (706) 369-1036 · Clarke County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL395 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
382 students
DISTRICT 93% · 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 | 51 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
25.6%
GA avg 40.1% . +2.3pp since 2021
Math
35.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.6% | 35.5% |
| 2023-24 | 27.1% | 29.3% |
| 2022-23 | 23.4% | 23.4% |
| 2021-22 | 23.3% | 24.4% |
% 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
29.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Whit Davis Road Elementary School
Whit Davis Road Elementary School's state test result (29.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whit Davis Road Elementary School this school | 395 | 96.7% | 29.1% |
| Reese Road Leadership Academy Columbus | 387 | 100.0% | 28.9% |
| Northside Elementary School Tifton | 405 | 100.0% | 24.5% |
| Savannah Classical Academy Charter School Savannah | 349 | 93.1% | 70.5% |
| Okapilco Elementary School Moultrie | 360 | 100.0% | 29.8% |
| Matt Wilson Elementary School Tifton | 398 | 100.0% | 35.6% |
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 Whit Davis Road Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clarke County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #827 of 1,208 | #8 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #718 of 1,215 ▲ 140 | #6 of 14 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #862 of 1,215 ▼ 2 | #7 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.7pp | #270 of 1,183 | #2 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 395 | #1,100 of 1,324 | #8 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #83 of 1,301 | #11 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #163 of 1,301 | #4 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.7% | #494 of 1,312 | #10 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.5% | #60 of 854 | #1 of 13 |
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
395
-40 (-9%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 516
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 9.1:1
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 | 395 | 37 | 10.7:1 | 97% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 402 | 40 | 10.1:1 | 79% (319) |
| 2022-23 | 439 | 44 | 10.0:1 | 83% (363) |
| 2020-21 | 435 | 48 | 9.1:1 | 82% (356) |
| 2017-18 | 594 | 52 | 11.4:1 | 92% (546) |
| 2015-16 | 616 | 51 | 12.1:1 | 92% (567) |
| 2010-11 | 624 | 52 | 12.0:1 | 58% (361) |
| 2000-01 | 555 | 28 | 19.8:1 | 55% (304) |
| 1990-91 | 516 | 30 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whit Davis Road Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (594 to 395); teachers down 29% (52 to 37).
About Whit Davis Road Elementary School
A small elementary school in Athens, Georgia, Whit Davis Road Elementary School is part of Clarke County. Federal data show 395 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Georgia enroll around 605, and this school is 35% below that mark.
The 21 schools in Clarke County enroll 12,275 students altogether, Whit Davis Road Elementary School among them.
Black students make up 46% of enrollment at Whit Davis Road Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% Hispanic, 21% White, and 9% multiracial. In Clarke County overall, about 26% of residents are Black. A diversity index of 69% means there is a 69% chance two randomly chosen students at Whit Davis Road Elementary School are from different groups.
Staffing at Whit Davis Road Elementary School comes to 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.7:1. The school's 10.7:1 compares with an average of 13.3:1 for elementary schools in Georgia. On the income side, 97% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Whit Davis Road Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (29.1%) and its predicted rate (27.4%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
Census data for Clarke County show the median household earns about $53,625 a year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Clarke County number 22, with about 13,750 students.
Barnett Shoals Elementary School is the nearest public school to Whit Davis Road Elementary School, about 1.2 miles away. Within five miles of Whit Davis Road Elementary School, there are 6 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Whit Davis Road Elementary School is 4th of 9 on proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Mid-size.
The school shrank from 435 students in 2020-21 to 395 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 9.1:1 to 10.7:1.
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Clarke County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
129,609
Census ACS
Median income
$53,625
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
13,750 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clarke County
- Clarke Central High SchoolHigh · 1,907 students
- Cedar Shoals High SchoolHigh · 1,489 students
- Clarke Middle SchoolMiddle · 718 students
- Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle SchoolMiddle · 707 students
- Whitehead Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 632 students
- Hilsman Middle SchoolMiddle · 624 students
Other schools in Athens
- Clarke Central High SchoolHigh · 1,907 students
- Cedar Shoals High SchoolHigh · 1,489 students
- Foothills Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Clarke Middle SchoolMiddle · 718 students
- South Jackson Elementary SchoolElementary · 715 students
- Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle SchoolMiddle · 707 students
Nearby schools
- Barnett Shoals Elementary School1.2 mi · 490
- Cedar Shoals High School1.5 mi · 1,489
- Gaines Elementary School2.1 mi · 568
- Hilsman Middle School2.1 mi · 624
- Barrow Elementary School4.6 mi · 456
- Winterville Elementary School4.8 mi · 343
Frequently asked questions
About Whit Davis Road Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Whit Davis Road Elementary School?
Whit Davis Road Elementary School enrolls approximately 395 students in grades PK-05.
Is Whit Davis Road Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Whit Davis Road Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Whit Davis Road Elementary School?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at Whit Davis Road Elementary School.
How diverse is Whit Davis Road Elementary School?
Whit Davis Road Elementary School reports a student body of 21% White, 23% Hispanic, 46% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Whit Davis Road Elementary School public or private?
Whit Davis Road Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clarke County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.