Stringfellow Elementary School, Moultrie GA

Original Research by School Decision on Stringfellow Elementary School

Stringfellow Elementary School serves pre-K through fifth grade in Moultrie, the county seat of Colquitt County in south Georgia, as a regular public elementary school with a student body of about 228 children. The school is distinctive for its student composition: every student enrolled qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Black, with substantial Hispanic enrollment and smaller shares of white and multiracial students. This demographic profile reflects both the broader Colquitt County population and the economic conditions of families the school serves.

State assessment results from the most recent school year show that Stringfellow's proficiency rates are low across tested grades and subjects. In math, proficiency ranges from the low teens at third grade to about a third at fifth grade. In English language arts, results similarly range from low to upper twenties, with fourth grade performing slightly above the school average. Science proficiency at fifth grade, the only grade tested in that subject, reaches about a third of students. These proficiency rates indicate that the majority of Stringfellow's students are not meeting state standards in reading, writing, and math during their elementary years. This is a soft spot that a parent may want to discuss directly with the school, as it suggests that most children will need focused intervention or acceleration work to progress on track.

The school's context within Moultrie and the broader district shapes its role. Moultrie itself is an active agricultural community and county seat undergoing visible growth: housing developments totaling dozens of units are in pre-construction phases, industrial investments are advancing, and civic anchors like the downtown and library system reflect a place with community engagement. The Colquitt County School District encompasses ten elementary schools, a middle school, a junior high, and a high school. The district recently completed a major facilities overhaul funded by a voter-approved sales tax that ran through this year, including a new ninth-grade wing at the high school that consolidated grades 9-12 under one roof starting last year. The district also implemented a school-wide cellphone ban in the most recent school year. These are structural changes that affect daily experience across the system.

Stringfellow is a small school for its grade band, and the student body includes many children from families with very low incomes. The school serves its community directly and faces the challenges that schools with 100 percent free-or-reduced-price-lunch eligibility typically encounter: addressing basic needs, managing high concentrations of poverty-related stressors, and supporting children with limited home literacy or language resources. The state assessment results show Stringfellow is not yet closing those gaps. A parent considering this school should have a clear conversation with staff about how the school targets reading and math, what supplemental or one-on-one help is available, and what the trajectory has been over time. The data provided does not show year-over-year trends, so asking the school directly about recent improvement or the strategies in place would be important.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 319%

School 19% · District 44% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 423%

School 23% · District 45% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 532%

School 32% · District 40% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 329%

School 29% · District 31% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 30% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 523%

School 23% · District 33% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Science

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 42% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Social studies

Grades 3-851%

School 51% · district not reported

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

This schoolColquitt 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.