Bloomingdale Elementary School vs Marshpoint Elementary School

Marshpoint Elementary School ranks #9 of 2,268 Georgia elementary schools, placing it in the top 0.4% statewide. Bloomingdale Elementary School ranks #47 of 2,268 — still elite, in the top 2% — giving it a strong standing of its own. The overall rating gap between them is just half a point: Marshpoint earns 9.5/10 to Bloomingdale's 9.0/10. Both schools are exceptional by any statewide measure, but the gap in state rank is real and worth understanding before making a decision.

The ratings diverge most sharply on academics. Marshpoint Elementary School scores 9.2/10 on the academic measure versus Bloomingdale Elementary School's 7.5/10 — a 1.7-point gap that reflects a meaningful difference in tested proficiency outcomes. On growth, however, the two schools are identical: both earn 9.8/10, indicating that students at Bloomingdale are gaining ground at exactly the same rate as students at Marshpoint. That shared growth score tells parents that Bloomingdale's teachers are extracting strong year-over-year gains from their students even where proficiency baselines differ.

The schools serve different populations and at different scales. Bloomingdale Elementary enrolls 331 students compared to Marshpoint's 645, making it roughly half the size. Bloomingdale's free and reduced-price lunch rate is 81%, versus 54% at Marshpoint — a 27-point gap that reflects a substantially higher-need student body. Bloomingdale also offers a tighter student-teacher ratio: 10.7 students per teacher versus Marshpoint's 12.2, meaning each child gets more individual adult attention on average. Both schools serve grades PK through 5.

Both are public elementary schools in the Savannah area, though they sit 18.6 miles apart, which makes the choice partly geographic. Marshpoint Elementary School's combination of top-10 state ranking and 9.2 academic score reflects high proficiency across its larger, more mixed-income enrollment. Bloomingdale Elementary School's near-perfect growth score alongside an 81% free and reduced-price lunch rate signals a school that is outperforming expectations for its demographic, with smaller classes and a more intimate environment.