West End Elementary School, Rome GA

Original Research by School Decision on West End Elementary School

West End Elementary serves students from prekindergarten through sixth grade in Rome, Georgia, drawing a student body that reflects the city's demographic composition and economic conditions. The enrollment is distributed across eight grade levels, with roughly balanced cohorts from pre-K through the upper elementary grades. A substantial share of the student population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school's enrollment is notably diverse, with substantial proportions of Hispanic, Black, White, and Asian students.

On state assessments, West End's academic performance sits above the midpoint among districts in Floyd County overall. Math proficiency varies by grade, with fourth graders showing strength relative to third and fifth graders; science performance in fifth grade is solid. English language arts proficiency is the school's softest area, with third through sixth grades all posting results below the school's math outcomes. The school's overall proficiency index across tested subjects places it ahead of the county median.

It is worth noting that the school has only one year of comparable data available, so understanding whether performance is moving, holding steady, or changing direction is not yet possible from the data on hand. A parent interested in trajectory might ask the school directly about recent initiatives and outcomes across multiple years.

The Rome City Schools district is implementing a significant, multi-year literacy initiative rooted in the Science of Reading. That new English Language Arts curriculum reached elementary schools in 2024-2025, the same year West End's ELA data was collected. The district also rolled out new Mathematics Standards beginning in 2023-2024, and math gains across grades four through six suggest those changes are taking hold. These are substantive, pedagogy-driven shifts that may take time to mature fully. For families evaluating West End specifically, the relatively lower ELA proficiency may reflect the early stages of curriculum implementation rather than permanent performance characteristics.

Rome itself is a mid-sized northwest Georgia city with a real downtown core anchored by historic Broad Street and an ongoing riverfront development. It functions partly as a bedroom community to Atlanta while maintaining its own civic and cultural identity. Housing costs are markedly affordable relative to Georgia statewide and the nation, and the local economy is anchored by healthcare systems, manufacturing, higher education, and retail. The community has been investing in downtown revitalization and new residential construction.

One material consideration for families considering the Rome City Schools district: voters recently rejected a local sales tax measure that, if passed, would have reduced property tax burdens. The district is also financing a new middle school through bonded debt that, if related sales-tax referendums do not pass, will result in a property tax increase for Rome homeowners. A family relocating into the district should factor the possibility of higher property tax bills into their long-term cost of living, as this is not simply a school-level but a district-and-community-level financial situation.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 344%

School 44% · District 35% · ▲ 8 pts above district

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

Grade 461%

School 61% · District 49% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 36% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Grade 652%

School 52% · District 37% · ▲ 16 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 329%

School 29% · District 20% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 442%

School 42% · District 29% · ▲ 13 pts above district

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

Grade 534%

School 34% · District 30% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 640%

School 40% · District 34% · ▲ 6 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 39% · ▲ 14 pts above district

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

Social studies

Grades 3-891%

School 91% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above 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.