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What's one thing Windsor Forest Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
656
Elementary
DISTRICT 607 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY·NCES 130102000394
Windsor Forest Elementary School
414 Briarcliff Cir, Savannah, GA 31419 · (912) 395-3353 · Chatham County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
550 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 64 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (113).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
25.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -0.7pp since 2021
Math
33.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.3% | 33.7% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 28.4% |
| 2022-23 | 23.9% | 29.0% |
| 2021-22 | 26.0% | 21.8% |
% 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
27.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Windsor Forest Elementary School
Windsor Forest Elementary School's state test result (27.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Forest Elementary School this school | 656 | 83.8% | 27.5% |
| White Bluff Elementary School Savannah | 701 | 85.3% | 17.9% |
| Waldo Pafford Elementary School Hinesville | 741 | 83.1% | 33.1% |
| Midland Academy Midland | 622 | 88.6% | 40.9% |
| Cotton Indian Elementary School Stockbridge | 545 | 80.4% | 22.6% |
| Factory Shoals Elementary School Lithia Springs | 697 | 87.5% | 27.5% |
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 Windsor Forest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Chatham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #868 of 1,208 | #19 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #769 of 1,215 ▲ 110 | #14 of 33 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #868 of 1,215 ▲ 23 | #18 of 33 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.6pp | #340 of 1,183 | #18 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #468 of 1,324 | #10 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #820 of 1,301 | #23 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.5% | #396 of 1,301 | #15 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.8% | #664 of 1,312 | #16 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +23.5% | #81 of 386 | #4 of 8 |
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
656
+194 (+42%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 1,118
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 656 | 47 | 14.0:1 | 84% (550) |
| 2023-24 | 451 | 50 | 9.0:1 | 82% (368) |
| 2022-23 | 475 | 44.5 | 10.7:1 | 78% (371) |
| 2020-21 | 462 | 45 | 10.3:1 | 75% (347) |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 47 | 11.3:1 | 85% (450) |
| 2015-16 | 696 | 47 | 14.8:1 | 79% (553) |
| 2010-11 | 575 | 45 | 12.8:1 | 68% (389) |
| 2000-01 | 738 | 37 | 19.9:1 | 45% (330) |
| 1990-91 | 1,118 | 62 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Windsor Forest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 24% (531 to 656); teachers unchanged (47 to 47).
About Windsor Forest Elementary School
Windsor Forest Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Savannah, Georgia. It had 656 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
Savannah-Chatham County operates 58 schools. Combined enrollment is 36,355 students.
More than half of the students at Windsor Forest Elementary School are Black (56%). Next come 18% Hispanic, 13% White, 6% multiracial, and 5% Asian. That compares with about 39% Black among all Chatham County residents. The diversity index for Windsor Forest Elementary School is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Georgia is similar, at 13.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 84% of the student body. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Chatham County is 74%.
Compared with Georgia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Windsor Forest Elementary School's results are 6.5 points below predicted: 27.5% against 34.0%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Chatham County show that median household income comes to about $71,097, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chatham County counts 60 public schools with about 36,380 students.
Windsor Forest Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Windsor Forest High School, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 27.5% is below the 29.7% average for nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Windsor Forest Elementary School enrolled 462 in 2020-21 and 656 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 10.3:1 to 14.0:1.
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Chatham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
300,879
Census ACS
Median income
$71,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
36,380 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Savannah-Chatham County
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Groves High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- New Hampstead High SchoolHigh · 1,123 students
- New Hampstead K-8 SchoolElementary · 1,118 students
Other schools in Savannah
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- Windsor Forest High SchoolHigh · 1,069 students
- Hesse SchoolElementary · 996 students
- Beach High SchoolHigh · 973 students
Nearby schools
- Windsor Forest High School0.5 mi · 1,069
- Largo-Tibet Elementary School1.3 mi · 611
- White Bluff Elementary School1.6 mi · 701
- Pulaski Elementary SChool1.6 mi · 1,147
- The STEM Academy at Bartlett2.2 mi · 625
- Hesse School2.4 mi · 996
Frequently asked questions
About Windsor Forest Elementary SchoolHow large is Windsor Forest Elementary School?
Windsor Forest Elementary School enrolls approximately 656 students in grades PK-05.
Is Windsor Forest Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Windsor Forest Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Windsor Forest Elementary School?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Windsor Forest Elementary School.
How diverse is Windsor Forest Elementary School?
Windsor Forest Elementary School reports a student body of 13% White, 18% Hispanic, 56% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Windsor Forest Elementary School?
Windsor Forest Elementary School is overseen by Savannah-Chatham County in Chatham County.
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