Woodlawn Elementary School

As an intimate elementary school in Chatsworth, Georgia, Woodlawn Elementary School instructs 498 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Murray County.

Within Murray County, which oversees 11 schools and 6,585 students, Woodlawn Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Woodlawn Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Murray County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Woodlawn Elementary School shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Woodlawn Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Woodlawn Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 39.6%, a residual of +14.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Murray County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,253 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Woodlawn Elementary School is one of 11 public schools in Murray County (combined enrollment of about 6,585 students).

The closest other public school is Bagley Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Woodlawn Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

Woodlawn Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 25%: 664 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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