Southwest Elementary, 6020 Ogeechee Road: pre-K to 5, 861 students in 2025, CCRPI 63.0. Feeds Southwest Middle.

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

Southwest Elementary School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System elementary school on Ogeechee Road, next to Southwest Middle, serving pre-K through fifth grade. It has a Savannah mailing address, but the Census Bureau’s geocoder places it in unincorporated Chatham County.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Michele Carthon, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 861 students at Southwest Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 729 students and 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.2 students per teacher.

State report card

Southwest Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 63.0, 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 72.8 in 2023 and 56.4 in 2024. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Southwest 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 17.6% 5%
Math 27.5% 8.3%
Science (fifth grade) 17% 7%

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. 40 of them (4.4%) were zoned for Southwest Elementary. Those homes were zoned for these schools at the other levels (share of the homes):

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 Southwest Elementary feed into?

Southwest Middle, for every Savannah home in our sample zoned for Southwest Elementary. For high school, 65% were zoned for Windsor Forest High and 35% for New Hampstead High.

What is Southwest Elementary’s CCRPI score?

63.0 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 56.4 in 2024.

What time does Southwest Elementary start?

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