West Green Elementary School, West Green GA

Original Research by School Decision on West Green Elementary School

West Green Elementary School is a small rural school in south Georgia serving prekindergarten through fifth grade. It sits in West Green, an unincorporated community in Coffee County with very low population density, long-established single-family homes and mobile homes, and a settled, stable resident base. The school is the civic anchor of the place and operates on a campus with roots stretching back to consolidated brick schooling built in the 1920s. A new building began construction in early 2025, replacing the existing rural campus.

The school's enrollment is small, concentrated in a rural area where roughly all enrolled families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting deep economic need. The student body is mixed: just over half white, roughly a third Hispanic, and roughly a sixth Black. Data on students receiving special education services or classified as English learners was not available.

Academic proficiency results are low across the board. In math, about one in three students in grade three met proficiency, rising slightly in grade four and dropping sharply in grade five to roughly one in four. English language arts results follow a similar pattern: about one in three students in grades three and four met proficiency, falling to roughly one in five in grade five. Science proficiency in grade five stands at about one in six students. The school has only one year of recent results available, so trend information cannot be drawn. The oldest available data point, from 2013-14, showed much stronger performance in social studies, but that assessment and its proficiency standard are no longer used in Georgia.

The low proficiency rates suggest students are substantially below grade-level expectations in core academics. A parent considering this school should ask the school directly about instructional support, intervention programs, and the district's plans to address these proficiency gaps, particularly whether the new facility and any new resources will include tutoring, small-group instruction, or other targeted help.

West Green lies in a rural labor market where median household income is stable but the area has been economically flat for some time. Housing in the zip code is substantially below state and national medians and remains affordable even as mortgage rates have risen. The community itself has no downtown or pedestrian core, and most civic life centers on the school campus. Larger services and employment sit roughly 10 to 15 miles away in Douglas, the county seat.

The school is not a charter school and operates as a regular public school in the Coffee County system. No data on staffing, discipline, attendance, or chronic absenteeism was available. State testing data exist only for the current year; multi-year trend data cannot be computed.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 37% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median

Grade 437%

School 37% · District 33% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 8 pts below state median

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 13 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 331%

School 31% · District 29% · ▲ 3 pts above district

even with state median

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 31% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median

Grade 520%

School 20% · District 33% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median

Science

Grade 516%

School 16% · District 41% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median

Social studies

Grades 3-886%

School 86% · district not reported

▲ 2 pts above state median

This schoolCoffee County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.