Windsor Forest Elementary, 414 Briarcliff Circle: pre-K to 5, 665 students in 2025, CCRPI 77.9. Feeds Southwest Middle and Windsor Forest High.
Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Windsor Forest 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.
Windsor Forest Elementary School is a Savannah-Chatham County Public School System elementary school on Briarcliff Circle in the Windsor Forest neighborhood on the south side, inside the city, serving pre-K through fifth grade. Its students go on to Southwest Middle and Windsor Forest High.
- Address: 414 Briarcliff Circle, Savannah, GA 31419
- Phone: 912-395-3353
- Grades: Pre-K to 5
- Website: wfes.sccpss.com
Who to call
- Windsor Forest Elementary front office: 912-395-3353
- Register a new student: the district’s online registration, or the Student and Family Service Center, 400 E. Broad St., 912-395-5584
- Bus routes: the district’s Transportation Department, 912-395-5591; find a stop with Find My School
- District main line: 912-395-5600
- Is this your school? Enter an address in Find My School
Principal
Principal Trikia Gilbert-Collins, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
The state counted 665 students at Windsor Forest Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 451 students and 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 9 students per teacher.
State report card
Windsor Forest Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 77.9, 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 68.3 in 2023 and 61.2 in 2024. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Windsor Forest 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 | 17.1% | 10.3% |
| Math | 24.5% | 10.6% |
| Science (fifth grade) | 18% | 9% |
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. 111 of them (12.3%) were zoned for Windsor Forest Elementary. Those homes were zoned for these schools at the other levels (share of the homes):
- Middle school: Southwest Middle (100%)
- High school: Windsor Forest High (100%)
Our Windsor Forest and Coffee Bluff guides found the homes we checked there zoned for this school. Check any address in Find My School.
Students from Largo-Tibet Elementary, which the district closed, were rezoned to Windsor Forest Elementary and Pulaski K-8 under Phase 1 of the district’s Long-Range Facilities Plan, adopted by the Board of Education in January 2024, 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.
More
- The school’s website
- The district’s map of schools, with every Savannah-Chatham County Public School System school
- The state’s report card for Windsor Forest Elementary
- Every public school that serves Savannah, with zones and scores: our Savannah public schools guide
- District calendar, registration, graduation rates and the school board: our Savannah schools guide
Frequently asked questions
Which middle school does Windsor Forest Elementary feed into?
Southwest Middle, and then Windsor Forest High, for every Savannah home in our sample zoned for Windsor Forest Elementary.
What is Windsor Forest Elementary’s CCRPI score?
77.9 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6. It was 61.2 in 2024.
What time does Windsor Forest Elementary start?
Classes run 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 2026-27, according to the district’s approved bell times.
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