Early Learning Center at Henderson E. Formey, 400 E. Broad St.: pre-K and kindergarten, 212 students in 2025. Feeds Andrea B. Williams Elementary.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Formey 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.

The Early Learning Center at Henderson E. Formey School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System school for the youngest students, on East Broad Street downtown, inside the city. The state’s 2025 data lists pre-K and kindergarten. Its students go on to Andrea B. Williams Elementary, and the district’s Student and Family Service Center, which handles registration, shares the address.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Erica Swindell-Foster, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 212 students at Formey in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 370 students and 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.2 students per teacher.

State report card

The state’s 2025 School Grades data lists no CCRPI score for the Formey center, which serves only pre-K and kindergarten; Georgia’s Milestones tests start in third grade. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Formey 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.

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. 152 of them (16.9%) were zoned for Formey. Those homes were zoned for these schools at the other levels (share of the homes):

Check any address in Find My School.

The district’s Phase 2 facilities plan proposal called for closing Shuman Elementary after the 2024-25 school year and moving its youngest students to the Formey center or to Juliette Gordon Low Elementary. Shuman is no longer on the district’s map of schools.

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

What grades does the Formey Early Learning Center serve?

Pre-K and kindergarten, according to the state’s 2025 data.

Which school do Formey students go to next?

Andrea B. Williams Elementary, then Hubert Middle and the School of Liberal Studies at Savannah High, for every Savannah home in our sample zoned for Formey.

What time does the Formey Early Learning Center start?

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