Lamar - Milledge Elementary School, Augusta GA

Original Research by School Decision on Lamar - Milledge Elementary School

Lamar-Milledge Elementary serves a small enrollment of students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in Augusta, Georgia. All students at the school qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Black, with smaller populations of white, multiracial, Hispanic, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students.

The school's academic performance reflects substantial challenges across tested subjects. In the most recent state assessment data, proficiency rates in English language arts averaged around one in six students across the tested grades. Mathematics proficiency was even lower, with the school-wide average around one in eight students meeting proficiency standards. Fifth-grade science proficiency reached about one in five students. These figures are notably below the county median on an overall proficiency index, placing the school among the lower-performing schools in Richmond County.

The breadth of the testing data available is limited. Georgia tests grades three through five in elementary schools, and the school's scores span those grades. The school has not yet accumulated multi-year trend data that would show whether performance is improving, declining, or stable.

Lamar-Milledge is located in Augusta, a mid-sized city anchored by a historic downtown along the Savannah River and anchored by healthcare, government, and manufacturing employment. The broader region is seeing residential growth, particularly in downtown Augusta's multifamily housing sector and in surrounding areas like North Augusta, though Augusta remains one of Georgia's more affordable housing markets.

Families considering this school should be aware of a major structural change ahead. Richmond County Schools adopted a Long-Range Facilities Master Plan effective in the 2026-27 school year that redraws attendance zones, consolidates schools, and repurposes several campus sites. The plan includes closing some elementary schools and converting others. Parents may want to clarify with the district directly how these changes affect Lamar-Milledge's footprint and which schools will feed into it at the middle and high school levels.

The district has also approved voter-funded capital construction through two education sales taxes, funding new elementary school buildings and a districtwide College and Career Academy at the former T.W. Josey and Murphey campus. The district chose to maintain a traditional school calendar for 2025-26 rather than shift to a modified year-round model.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 314%

School 14% · District 21% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 44%

School 4% · District 21% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 41 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 523%

School 23% · District 19% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 312%

School 12% · District 19% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 49%

School 9% · District 21% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 26% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Science

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 20% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Social studies

Grades 3-851%

School 51% · district not reported

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

This schoolRichmond 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.