Beach High School, Savannah: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Beach High website, its pathways and coaches pages, the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System’s map of schools, bell times and 2026-27 calendar, the district’s Find My School lookup, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data, the Georgia High School Association and the federal NCES school directory.

Alfred Ely Beach High School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System high school on Hopkins Street, inside the city on the west side of midtown, serving ninth through 12th grade. Its teams are the Bulldogs. It is one of the high schools most often zoned for city homes, and it hosts the district’s Medical and Allied Health choice program.

• Address: 3001 Hopkins St., Savannah, GA 31405
• Phone: 912-395-5330
• Grades: 9 to 12
• Website: beach.sccpss.com

Who to call

• Beach High front office: 912-395-5330
• Register a new student: the district’s online registration, or the Student and Family Service Center, 400 E. Broad St., 912-395-5584
• Bus routes: the district’s Transportation Department, 912-395-5591; find a stop with Find My School
• District main line: 912-395-5600
• Is this your school? Enter an address in Find My School

Principal

Principal Emanuel McCall, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,102 students at Beach High in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 904 students and 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.8 students per teacher.

State report card

Beach High’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 67.8, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for high schools was 76.9 and the district’s was 68.6. It was 69.0 in 2023 and 69.0 in 2024. Its four-year graduation rate was 86.9% in 2025, against 87.2% for Georgia and for the district. The district’s own figure for the class of 2026 is 93.3%, according to its graduation announcement. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Beach High report card.

CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness, plus graduation rate for high schools. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.

Georgia Milestones end-of-course tests, 2025, share of tested students scoring at the Proficient and Distinguished levels:

Attendance zone

We ran 900 Savannah homes, chosen at random from Chatham County’s parcel records for the city, through the district’s Find My School lookup on Oct. 6, 2026. 184 of them (20.4%) were zoned for Beach High. Those homes were zoned for these schools at the other levels (share of the homes):

• Sixth to eighth grade: DeRenne Middle (62%), Myers Middle (37%) and Pulaski K-8 (1%)
• Elementary school: Butler Elementary (29%), Hodge Elementary (27%), J.G. Smith Elementary (25%), Haven Elementary (12%) and Gadsden Elementary (6%)

In January 2024 the Board of Education adopted new zones under Phase 1 of the district’s Long-Range Facilities Plan. Students in Berwick, Southbridge, Elk Avenue, Laguna Way and Dean Forest Road between Interstate 16 and Ogeechee Road were moved from New Hampstead High to Beach starting in the 2024-25 school year, with an option to stay at New Hampstead, according to the district’s grandfathering page and zone maps.

Beach hosts the district’s Medical and Allied Health choice program, which students from across the county can apply to by lottery. The school’s pathways page lists career pathways in business and technology, entrepreneurship, therapeutic services, diagnostics and phlebotomy and emergency medical response, an Army Junior ROTC program, and fine arts pathways in band, chorus and visual arts.

Sports and activities

Beach plays in Region 3-AAA of the Georgia High School Association for 2026-27, according to the GHSA region alignment, with Appling County, Brantley County, Islands, Johnson, Pierce County, Tattnall County and Toombs County. Schedules and results: our Friday night football page and the scoreboard.

The school’s coaches page lists coaches for cross country, basketball, soccer and track and field, plus the band, esports and the rifle team. Its athletics calendar also carries football, volleyball and flag football games.

Calendar

From the district’s 2026-27 calendar, approved May 7, 2025 (all dates on the district calendar page):

• Thursday, Oct. 8: staff planning day, no school for students
• Friday, Oct. 9: fall holiday
• Monday, Oct. 12: Columbus Day, no school
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: remote-learning half-day; students learn from home
• Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school
• Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
• Dec. 21-31: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4, 2027, is a staff planning day with no school for students
• March 26 to April 2, 2027: spring break
• Friday, May 21, 2027: last day of school

Bell times

Classes run 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., according to the district’s 2026-27 bell times, approved by the Board of Public Education on April 8, 2026. Buses arrive at 7 a.m., breakfast is served from 7 to 7:20 a.m., and buses leave at 2:40 p.m.

More

• The school’s website
• The district’s map of schools, with every Savannah-Chatham County Public School System school
• The state’s report card for Beach High
• Every public school that serves Savannah, with zones and scores: our Savannah public schools guide
• District calendar, registration, graduation rates and the school board: our Savannah schools guide

Frequently asked questions

Which middle school feeds Beach High School?

Mostly DeRenne Middle. In our sample of Savannah homes zoned for Beach, 62% were zoned for DeRenne Middle and 37% for Myers Middle.

What is Beach High School’s CCRPI score?

67.8 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia high school average of 76.9. It was 69.0 in 2023 and 2024.

What is Beach High School’s graduation rate?

93.3% for the class of 2026, according to the district. The state’s 2025 figure was 86.9%.

What time does Beach High School start?

Classes run 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in 2026-27, according to the district’s approved bell times.