Jackson Road Elementary School, Griffin GA

Original Research by School Decision on Jackson Road Elementary School

Jackson Road Elementary School is a small, neighborhood school serving grades pre-K through fifth in Griffin, a mixed-use county-seat city about forty miles south of downtown Atlanta. The school sits in a community of steady suburban growth that is home to major employers like Caterpillar and has seen new housing and commercial investment in recent years, alongside rebuilding efforts following a significant tornado in early 2023.

The student body is largely economically disadvantaged. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Racially, the enrollment leans white, with meaningful shares of Black, Hispanic, and multiracial students, and the school is small, with enrollment spread across seven grade bands from pre-K through fifth grade.

Academic performance on Georgia's state assessments is substantially below proficiency across all tested subjects. In third-grade reading and language arts, performance is particularly low. By fourth grade, reading proficiency rises but remains well below the state expectation, and fourth-grade math performance sits around the midpoint but is still far from universal mastery. Fifth-grade results are somewhat stronger in reading and math, and science performance at that grade is roughly in line with reading. Across all tested grades and subjects, just over a quarter of students in reading and roughly a third in math reach proficiency. Science proficiency in fifth grade sits at about the same rate as reading. The school does not have a graduation rate because it serves only elementary grades. No data on chronic absenteeism, discipline, or special-population enrollment were available in the records reviewed.

Housing in the zip code is moderately priced for the broader region and remains relatively affordable; rental costs are modest relative to median income. The district rolled back its school millage rate in 2025 to its lowest level in more than a decade, and county voters recently approved a graduated senior homestead exemption from school taxes, creating a more structured tax environment for families planning long-term residence. The district has also opted out of Georgia's floating homestead exemption, meaning school property taxes will track full home valuations year to year rather than capped growth, a detail prospective homebuyers may want to understand.

Jackson Road sits within the Griffin-Spalding County School District. For families moving to the area or choosing a school within the district, the school's small size and early-grade focus define its niche. The low proficiency rates signal that students entering the school face significant academic gaps and that classroom instruction here is operating under real constraint. A parent may want to look into the school's approach to reading intervention and math remediation, staff capacity and support structures, and what the trajectory looks like for students as they move toward middle grades.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 319%

School 19% · District 23% · ▼ 4 pts below district

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

Grade 445%

School 45% · District 30% · ▲ 15 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 26% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 39%

School 9% · District 19% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 20% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 30% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Science

Grade 537%

School 37% · District 29% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Social studies

Grades 3-879%

School 79% · district not reported

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

This schoolGriffin-Spalding 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.