Elm Street Elementary, Rome GA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Elm Street Elementary

Elm Street Elementary is a public elementary school serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in Rome, Georgia. The school sits in a community experiencing downtown revitalization and growth as a bedroom community for Atlanta, where housing remains more affordable than state and regional benchmarks. The local economy mixes healthcare systems, manufacturing, and education, with employers including Berry College, multiple hospital systems, and Georgia Northwestern Technical College.

The school serves a student body that is almost entirely economically disadvantaged, with a very large share qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The enrollment is predominantly Hispanic, with meaningful shares of Black students, and a small population of white and multiracial students. The student body is linguistically diverse, though specific counts of English learners were not available. Demographically, Elm Street's enrollment reflects the composition of Rome's growing immigrant and working-class communities.

Academically, the school shows mixed performance across tested subjects and grades. In English language arts, results are weak across the board, with proficiency very low in third grade and climbing only modestly through sixth grade. In mathematics, third grade starts low but improves through fourth and fifth grades before declining sharply in sixth grade. Science proficiency in fifth grade sits at about half of students, the strongest performance the school reports. Compared to other districts in Floyd County, Elm Street's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint, though this reflects the performance of the district as a whole rather than placing this school at the top of the county.

The district has undertaken a substantive multi-year literacy initiative beginning in 2022-2023, adopting a Science of Reading-aligned English Language Arts curriculum and hiring academic coaches and interventionists. This curriculum rolled out to elementary schools in 2024-2025, the school year reflected in current test data. The weak ELA proficiency rates suggest the initiative is in early stages of implementation; a parent may want to look into further details with the school about how this work is affecting instruction and what trajectory leadership projects. The district also rolled out Georgia's new K-12 Mathematics Standards beginning in 2023-2024, and some grades system-wide posted gains on the most recent state assessment.

Rome City Schools is financing a new middle school with substantial debt service, and that debt repayment depends partly on whether future sales-tax referendums pass. If they do not, the cost falls on Rome property owners as additional property tax mills—a material cost-of-living factor for families considering the area. Floyd County voters recently rejected a local sales-tax measure that would have reduced property taxes, and there is no immediate plan to revisit the question.

The housing market in the zip code is moderately priced relative to national benchmarks and significantly more affordable than Georgia. Monthly rent is modest and home prices have seen slight year-over-year appreciation. The area is marketed as a place to live and raise a family, with walkability concentrated in the downtown core while the city overall remains car-dependent.

Elm Street is one school within Rome City Schools, a small district. The school does not have a charter or magnet designation and is a regular public school. State testing data covers only the grades the state tests; data on chronic absenteeism, discipline, staffing, or attendance were not available in the provided materials.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 332%

School 32% · District 35% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 446%

School 46% · District 49% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 36% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 37% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 312%

School 12% · District 20% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 428%

School 28% · District 29% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 30% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 34% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 39% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Social studies

Grades 3-872%

School 72% · district not reported

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

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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.