Marshpoint Elementary, 135 Whitemarsh Island Road: pre-K to 5, 583 students in 2025, CCRPI 84.8. Feeds Coastal Middle and Islands High.

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

Marshpoint Elementary School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System elementary school on Whitemarsh Island Road, serving pre-K through fifth grade. It has a Savannah mailing address but sits in the Whitemarsh Island census area, outside the city limits, according to the Census Bureau’s geocoder. It shares the road with Islands High and Coastal Middle.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Susan Ambrose, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 583 students at Marshpoint Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 645 students and 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.2 students per teacher.

State report card

Marshpoint Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 84.8, 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 85.9 in 2023 and 90.0 in 2024. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Marshpoint 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 38.4% 17.3%
Math 36.9% 28.4%
Science (fifth grade) 34.7% 35.7%

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 Marshpoint; its zone is on the islands outside the city. At the school’s address the lookup returns Marshpoint, Coastal Middle and Islands High. Check any address in Find My School.

Marshpoint hosts the Environmental Sciences and STEAM program, one of the district’s choice programs, open by lottery.

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 Marshpoint Elementary feed into?

Coastal Middle, and then Islands High, according to the district’s Find My School lookup.

What is Marshpoint Elementary’s CCRPI score?

84.8 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 90.0 in 2024.

What time does Marshpoint Elementary start?

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