Bay Creek Elementary School, Loganville GA

Original Research by School Decision on Bay Creek Elementary School

Bay Creek Elementary serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in Loganville, a rapidly growing exurban community about an hour east of Atlanta. The school enrolls a diverse student body, with a substantial share qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch and roughly equal representation across Black, Hispanic, and white students. The school is a regular public elementary in Walton County's district system.

State testing results from spring 2025 show proficiency rates in math and English language arts below the midpoint for the county. In third grade, math proficiency was below fourth-grade performance, which dipped further before recovering in fifth grade. ELA proficiency in third and fourth grades fell short of half, though fifth graders showed better results, reaching around half proficient in ELA and roughly approaching that mark in science. The school's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among Walton County's districts, a positioning that reflects uneven performance across grades.

The pattern visible in the data suggests stronger results in upper elementary, particularly in fifth grade, while earlier grades show lower attainment. Parents evaluating this school may want to look further into current initiatives around early literacy and numeracy support and to ask the school directly about the reasons for the grade-to-grade variance and what steps are underway to strengthen third and fourth grade outcomes.

Loganville itself is car-dependent outside a small historic downtown, with no public transit and most daily errands requiring a vehicle. The city anchors civic life around parks including Bay Creek Park, which operates seven ball fields and a lighted skate complex. Schools function as standalone campuses; Bay Creek Elementary occupies a suburban site. The region is experiencing rapid growth driven by Atlanta's suburban expansion, with active new-home communities bringing families to the area. Housing values are moderate for the Atlanta metro, and the local economy relies on the school district as a major employer alongside retail, healthcare, and industrial operations. A meaningful share of residents commute to Atlanta, Athens, or other regional centers for work.

The Walton County School District recently cut the school property-tax millage rate for operations and eliminated the school bond millage after retiring district debt, offering tax relief to families. The district also operates under ELOST VI, a one-penny sales tax dedicated to school construction and facility upgrades through 2027, with a renewal vote held in November 2025. These funding shifts mean capital improvements draw primarily from sales tax revenue rather than property bonds, a stable source for facility planning that includes non-resident spending in the county.

The school environment blends suburban residential growth with a small-town civic center, placing families in a community with improving amenities but limited walkability outside the downtown core.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 45% · ▼ 4 pts below district

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

Grade 429%

School 29% · District 57% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 51% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 35% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 437%

School 37% · District 46% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 50% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 49% · ▼ 9 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Social studies

Grades 3-891%

School 91% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

This schoolWalton 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income37%Higher-income48%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income30%Higher-income79%49 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income59%Higher-income76%17 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income41%Higher-income70%29 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income41%Higher-income62%21 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income33%Higher-income79%46 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income39%Higher-income55%17 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income37%Higher-income67%30 pp gap