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Enrollment
554
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLQUITT COUNTY·NCES 130138000587
Wright Elementary School
1812 2nd St SE, Moultrie, GA 31768 · (229) 890-6186 · Colquitt County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
280 students
DISTRICT 93% · 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 | 63 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 23% larger than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Wright Elementary School→Willie J. Williams Middle School→CA Gray Junior High School→Colquitt County High School
Based on grade levels within Colquitt County. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
48.9%
GA avg 40.1% . +5.1pp since 2021
Math
61.9%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.9% | 61.9% |
| 2023-24 | 54.4% | 65.3% |
| 2022-23 | 47.2% | 61.7% |
| 2021-22 | 43.8% | 50.5% |
% 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
57.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Wright Elementary School
Wright Elementary School's state test result (57.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright Elementary School this school | 554 | 50.5% | 57.1% |
| Crooked River Elementary School Saint Marys | 611 | 49.1% | 59.8% |
| South Douglas Elementary School Douglasville | 544 | 46.7% | 59.2% |
| Elm Street Elementary School Newnan | 477 | 55.1% | 57.5% |
| Bonaire Primary School Bonaire | 564 | 43.8% | N/A |
| Temple Elementary School Temple | 666 | 50.0% | 47.9% |
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 Wright Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Colquitt County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #229 of 1,208 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #229 of 1,215 ▼ 48 | #1 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.9% | #290 of 1,215 ▼ 42 | #2 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.3pp | #202 of 1,183 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #720 of 1,324 | #3 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #816 of 1,301 | #10 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.8% | #489 of 1,301 | #6 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.5% | #1,033 of 1,312 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #576 of 854 | #9 of 10 |
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
554
+33 (+6%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 405
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 554 | 39.7 | 13.9:1 | 51% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 544 | 37.7 | 14.4:1 | 43% (236) |
| 2022-23 | 521 | 37.5 | 13.9:1 | 97% (505) |
| 2020-21 | 521 | 36 | 14.5:1 | 97% (505) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 37.8 | 16.1:1 | 95% (579) |
| 2015-16 | 624 | 37 | 16.9:1 | 95% (593) |
| 2010-11 | 542 | 32 | 16.9:1 | 52% (284) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 21 | 22.1:1 | 50% (234) |
| 1990-91 | 405 | 28 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wright Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (609 to 554); teachers up 5% (37.8 to 39.7).
About Wright Elementary School
Federal records list Wright Elementary School as an elementary school in Moultrie, Georgia. Total enrollment is 554 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
Colquitt County is the district for Wright Elementary School. It has 13 schools and 8,767 students.
White students are 57% of those enrolled at Wright Elementary School. Next come 23% Black, 16% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. That is in line with Colquitt County, where about 56% of residents are White. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at Wright Elementary School are from different groups.
The school's 39.7 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 13.3:1. At Wright Elementary School, 51% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. It compares with 95% for public schools in Colquitt County.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 51.2% at Wright Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 57.1%.
In Colquitt County, the median household earns about $49,341 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 16%, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. Across Colquitt County, 13 public schools serve about 8,767 students.
Willie J. Williams Middle School sits about 1.1 miles from Wright Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 6 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 32.9%, lower than Wright Elementary School's 57.1%.
NCES describes the area around Wright Elementary School as Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school's enrollment increased 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Colquitt County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,224
Census ACS
Median income
$49,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
8,767 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Colquitt County
- Colquitt County High SchoolHigh · 1,932 students
- CA Gray Junior High SchoolHigh · 1,389 students
- Willie J. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolElementary · 614 students
- Norman Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 581 students
- Odom Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
Other schools in Moultrie
- CA Gray Junior High SchoolHigh · 1,389 students
- Willie J. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,285 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolElementary · 614 students
- Odom Elementary SchoolElementary · 518 students
- Cox Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Okapilco Elementary SchoolElementary · 360 students
Other Wright Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 9 states are named Wright Elementary. Wright Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 11.
- WRIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFORT WALTON BEACH, FL · 609 students
- Wright ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 562 students
- Wright Elementary SchoolWEATHERFORD, TX · 528 students
- Wright ElementaryShelbyville, KY · 489 students
- Wright Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 430 students
Nearby schools
- Willie J. Williams Middle School1.1 mi · 1,285
- Cox Elementary School1.2 mi · 466
- Stringfellow Elementary School1.4 mi · 220
- CA Gray Junior High School2.6 mi · 1,389
- Sunset Elementary School3.7 mi · 614
- Colquitt County High School3.8 mi · 1,932
Frequently asked questions
About Wright Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wright Elementary School?
Wright Elementary School enrolls approximately 554 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Wright Elementary School serve?
Wright Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Wright Elementary School have?
Wright Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Wright Elementary School?
Student demographics at Wright Elementary School are roughly 57% White, 16% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Wright Elementary School?
Wright Elementary School is overseen by Colquitt County in Colquitt County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.