Best Public Schools in Ailey, GA

Summary:

The city of Ailey, Georgia has only one public elementary school, Montgomery County Elementary School, which serves grades PK-5 with an enrollment of 440 students. The school is part of the Montgomery County School District, which is ranked 100 out of 206 districts in Georgia and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Montgomery County Elementary School has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past three years, dropping from 721 out of 1,248 Georgia elementary schools in 2023-2024 to 883 out of 1,238 in 2024-2025. The school's performance on the Milestones Assessment is generally below the state average in both English Language Arts and Mathematics across grades 3-5. For example, in 2024-2025, the percentage of 3rd-grade students proficient or better in ELA was 20.4% at the school, compared to the state average of 34.9%. In Mathematics, the school's 5th-grade proficiency rate was 23.7%, while the state average was 42.6%.

The school serves a predominantly low-income population, with 93.41% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2023-2024. Despite the high spending per student of $11,344, the school's academic performance suggests that the resources may not be effectively utilized to support student learning. The school's student-teacher ratio of 11.8 to 1 in 2023-2024 is relatively low, but it does not appear to be translating into better academic outcomes for the students.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				Milestones Assessment English Language Arts (2025)			Milestones Assessment Mathematics (2025)			Milestones Assessment Science (2025)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	Milestones Assessment English Language Arts 3rd Grade	Milestones Assessment English Language Arts 4th Grade	Milestones Assessment English Language Arts 5th Grade	Milestones Assessment Mathematics 3rd Grade	Milestones Assessment Mathematics 4th Grade	Milestones Assessment Mathematics 5th Grade	Milestones Assessment Science 5th Grade	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Montgomery County Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	900 Martin Luther King Dr	Ailey	30410	Montgomery County	Montgomery County	No	No	No	Yes	(912) 583-2279	435	36	12.1	100.0%	222 (51.0%)	124 (28.5%)	57 (13.1%)	2 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	30 (6.9%)	27.4	883^rd of 1238 public elementary schools	28.7%		38.4	721^st of 1248 public elementary schools	42.2%	162	20.4	24.1	22.0	35.2	46.3	23.7	27.1	$17,242	$1,390	$15,852

Cities Near Ailey

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Vidalia	3.7 mi	4	306^th
Mount Vernon	6.11 mi	2	156^th
Lyons	8.7 mi	5	217^th
Soperton	16.73 mi	2	177^th
Alamo	17.58 mi	3	135^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Georgia Department of Education.

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