May Howard Elementary, 115 Wilmington Island Road: pre-K to 5, 505 students in 2025, CCRPI 77.7. Feeds Coastal Middle and Islands High.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the May Howard 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.

May Howard Elementary School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System elementary school on Wilmington Island Road, serving pre-K through fifth grade. It has a Savannah mailing address but sits in the Wilmington Island census area, outside the city limits, according to the Census Bureau’s geocoder.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Kenneth Deal, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 505 students at May Howard Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 565 students and 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 10.9 students per teacher. The school’s own website gives its ZIP code as 31411; the state and federal records use 31410.

State report card

May Howard Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 77.7, 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 88.9 in 2023 and 88.2 in 2024. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s May Howard 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 38.1% 21.3%
Math 41.4% 27.9%
Science (fifth grade) 40.6% 21.7%

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

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 May Howard Elementary feed into?

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

What is May Howard Elementary’s CCRPI score?

77.7 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 88.2 in 2024.

What time does May Howard Elementary start?

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