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White Oak Elementary School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat 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 44 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 10 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Oak Elementary School
White Oak Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Newnan, Georgia, overseen by Coweta County, serveing 712 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Coweta County comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 23,064 students; White Oak Elementary School is among them.
On demographics, White Oak Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Black, 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at White Oak Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Coweta County (around 46%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
With demographic context factored in, White Oak Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.1%; this one delivers 43.4%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Coweta County) reports that median household income runs about $95,548, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Coweta County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,423 students), of which White Oak Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Arnall Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around White Oak Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), White Oak Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at White Oak Elementary School has climbed 10%, going from 650 students in 2018 to 712 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 57% to 40%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the White Oak Elementary School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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