Odum Elementary School, Odum GA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Odum Elementary School

Odum Elementary School sits at 1 Blue Jay Drive in a small rural town in southeast Georgia. It serves prekindergarten through fifth grade in a building that houses all of the younger students in the Wayne County School District. The school enrolls a small student body that is predominantly white, with about half of all students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch.

Math proficiency at the school runs higher than English language arts. Across tested grades, students showed approximately two-thirds proficiency in math overall, with third-graders performing a bit above that mark and fifth-graders notably lower. In English language arts, the overall picture was below math, with a little over half of students meeting proficiency. Third-grade ELA proficiency fell below half. Fifth-grade science proficiency was around three-fifths. These numbers reflect a school where some students are solidly on grade level while others are not. A parent considering the school may want to ask the school directly about what interventions and support exist for students who are not yet meeting the state benchmarks, especially in upper elementary grades where the gap widens.

The school sits on a rural, distant campus rather than at the center of town. Odum itself is a historic railroad community with a very small population, a compact downtown around the train depot and a handful of local businesses, and a predominantly owner-occupied housing market. Home values in the Odum ZIP code are moderate for the broader region. Growth in the town has been slow and incremental rather than rapid, and the local economy is small, with most jobs in professional services, construction, or agriculture rather than tied to a single dominant employer. The school is a notable in-town public employer.

The Wayne County School District approved an education sales tax renewal in 2022 that is funding capital upgrades including new facilities at the high school and infrastructure improvements, showing the district's approach to maintaining and improving its facilities without relying solely on property tax increases.

No multi-year trend data were available, so it is not possible to say whether proficiency at Odum Elementary is moving up, holding steady, or moving down. State assessment data were also not available for younger grades, since kindergarten and first and second grade are not tested in Georgia. This means the school's performance picture is limited to what we can see in grades three through five.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 374%

School 74% · District 43% · ▲ 31 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median

Grade 472%

School 72% · District 48% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 33% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 346%

School 46% · District 31% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 458%

School 58% · District 36% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 31% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median

Science

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 40% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median

Social studies

Grades 3-891%

School 91% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median

This schoolWayne 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.