Carrie E. Gould Elementary, 4910 Pineland Drive: pre-K to 5, 588 students in 2025, CCRPI 80.4. Feeds West Chatham Middle and Beach High.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Gould Elementary 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.

Carrie E. Gould Elementary School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System elementary school on Pineland Drive, serving pre-K through fifth grade. It has a Savannah mailing address, but the Census Bureau’s geocoder places it inside Garden City.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Tyiesha Oliver, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 588 students at Gould Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 887 students and 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.1 students per teacher.

State report card

Gould Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 80.4, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for elementary schools was 78.6 and the district’s was 72.2. It was 70.2 in 2023 and 63.5 in 2024. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Gould Elementary 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 20.6% 6.2%
Math 23.1% 8.7%
Science (fifth grade) 45% 3.3%

Attendance zone

None of the 900 Savannah homes we ran through the district’s Find My School lookup on Oct. 6, 2026, was zoned for Gould. At the school’s own address the lookup returns Gould, West Chatham Middle in Pooler and Beach High. Check any address in Find My School.

The district’s first facilities plan proposed closing Gould; the revised plan the Board of Education approved in January 2024 kept it open, according to the district’s revisions page, while moving part of its zone to New Hampstead K-8, according to the district’s zone maps.

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 9:15 a.m. to 4 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 8:55 a.m., breakfast is served from 8:55 to 9:15 a.m., and buses leave at 4:10 p.m.

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Frequently asked questions

Which middle school does Gould Elementary feed into?

West Chatham Middle in Pooler, and then Beach High, at the school’s own address in the district’s Find My School lookup.

What is Gould Elementary’s CCRPI score?

80.4 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 63.5 in 2024.

What time does Gould Elementary start?

Classes run 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 2026-27, according to the district’s approved bell times.