Quitman County Elementary, Georgetown GA

Original Research by School Decision on Quitman County Elementary

Quitman County Elementary serves prekindergarten through eighth grade in Georgetown, the county seat of a very small, rural county in southwestern Georgia. The school enrolls a modest cohort of students, drawn almost entirely from families qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Black, with smaller shares of white students and very small numbers of Asian and multiracial students.

Academic performance at the school is low across tested subjects. Reading proficiency sits in single digits across grades three through six, with a slight uptick to a modest level by eighth grade. Mathematics proficiency is similarly depressed in the elementary grades, hovering near or below 10 percent through fifth grade before improving to a moderate level by eighth grade. Science proficiency, tested in grades five and eight, ranges from modest to low. Social studies results for eighth grade were not disclosed. The full picture reflects a school where the vast majority of students are not meeting state proficiency benchmarks, a pattern the district has identified as urgent enough to warrant a district-wide literacy curriculum overhaul beginning in the 2024-25 school year, with the addition of a dedicated elementary literacy coach. A parent may want to look into further detail with the school about what that literacy shift has meant in classroom practice and what early indicators of student response have emerged.

The school's enrollment spans nine grades with relatively even distribution from prekindergarten through sixth grade, then drops noticeably in grades seven and eight, a pattern common in rural districts where some families move or shift schooling arrangements. All students in the school qualify for federal lunch assistance, indicating a community facing acute economic stress. The town of Georgetown is a very quiet, car-dependent rural setting centered on county government and lakefront vacation-home development rather than commercial activity. It has experienced slow population decline over recent decades. The county economy is among the smallest in Georgia, dominated by manufacturing, retail, and health care, with the lowest average weekly wages in the state as of the most recent reporting.

The district itself has undertaken two notable initiatives that affect the school's context. The curriculum and literacy coaching investment speaks to an intentional response to documented reading weakness. Separately, federal funding secured in 2024 for a new athletic complex with outdoor fields for track, softball, and baseball represents a material expansion of extracurricular options in a district where such amenities are sparse. That complex broke ground in August 2024 and will serve the county's schools.

State assessment data is available only for one year, so trend analysis was not possible. Participation data and chronic absenteeism figures were not provided. The school's special education and English learner populations were not reported.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 38%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 32 pts below state median

Grade 419%

School 19% · District 19%

▼ 26 pts below state median

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 28 pts below state median

Grade 620%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 720%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 14 pts below state median

Grade 840%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 2 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 30%

School 0% · District 0%

▼ 31 pts below state median

Grade 410%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 25 pts below state median

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 28 pts below state median

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 27 pts below state median

Grade 720%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 16 pts below state median

Grade 810%

School 10% · District 10%

▼ 25 pts below state median

Science

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 14 pts below state median

Grade 820%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 6 pts below state median

This schoolQuitman 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.