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White Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About White Elementary School
White Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school in White, Georgia, run under Bartow County. The school instructs 562 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Bartow County comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 14,019 students; White Elementary School is among them.
In terms of who attends, White Elementary School shows that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Bartow County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, White Elementary School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at White Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), White Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.2%; this one delivers 43.3%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Bartow County put median household income runs about $82,243, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. White Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Bartow County (combined enrollment of about 18,705 students).
Nearest neighbor: Cass High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around White Elementary School. On composite proficiency, White Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 562 in 2025.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Bartow County at a glance
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