Godley Station School, 2135 Benton Blvd.: pre-K to 8, 1,767 students in 2025, CCRPI 74.3. Feeds Groves High.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Godley Station website, 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 and the federal NCES school directory.

Godley Station School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System school for pre-K through eighth grade on Benton Boulevard in the Godley Station area of west Savannah, inside the city. It had the most students of any K-8 school in the district in the state’s 2025 data, and its students go on to Groves High.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Jennie Thompson, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,767 students at Godley Station in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 1,133 students and 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.5 students per teacher.

State report card

Godley Station’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 74.3, according to the state’s School Grades data. It was 73.5 in 2023 and 74.2 in 2024. For its elementary grades the 2025 score was 74.2, against 78.6 for Georgia elementary schools, and for its middle grades 74.4, against 78.4 for Georgia middle schools. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Godley Station 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-grade tests in grades three to five, 2025, share of tested students scoring at the Proficient and Distinguished levels:

Subject Proficient Distinguished
English language arts 25.2% 11.6%
Math 25.8% 11.8%
Science (fifth grade) 36.1% 13.9%

Georgia Milestones end-of-grade tests in grades six to eight, 2025, share of tested students scoring at the Proficient and Distinguished levels:

Subject Proficient Distinguished
English language arts 29.7% 14.2%
Math 18.4% 11.5%
Science (eighth grade) 21.6% 6.5%
Social studies (eighth grade) 22.1% 6.4%

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. 63 of them (7%) were zoned for Godley Station. Those homes were zoned for these schools at the other levels (share of the homes):

Our Godley Station guide found every home we checked there zoned for Godley Station and Groves. Check any address in Find My School.

Under Phase 1 of the district’s Long-Range Facilities Plan, adopted by the Board of Education in January 2024, some students from New Hampstead K-8 and Rice Creek K-8 were moved to Godley Station starting in 2024-25, according to the district’s zone maps and grandfathering page.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Which high school does Godley Station feed into?

Groves High, for every Savannah home in our sample zoned for Godley Station.

What is Godley Station School’s CCRPI score?

74.3 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data: 74.2 for its elementary grades and 74.4 for its middle grades. It was 74.2 in 2024.

What time does Godley Station School start?

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