Four public elementary schools in Houston County, Georgia, received overall grades of B− or C+ in Niche’s latest county listing—the lowest marks among its eligible graded schools.
Four qualify because two schools share the B− grade at the cutoff.
The 2027 evaluations arrive alongside a significant local change: Parkwood now serves younger children as a primary school, while Westside serves grades three through five.
Their Niche profiles still describe the earlier school configurations, making the dates behind the numbers especially important.
All four schools belong to Houston County Schools and are in Warner Robins.
Miller Elementary School, Warner Robins — Overall Niche Grade: B−
Miller Elementary serves prekindergarten through fifth grade on Pine Valley Drive. Its 2027 Niche profile gives it a B− overall, with C+ grades for academics and teachers.
Reading Results Point to a Need for Support
Niche reports that 22% of tested students reached proficiency in reading and 27% in math, using Georgia’s 2024–25 assessment results. That means roughly one in four tested students met the proficiency threshold in each subject.
Those figures describe achievement against state standards. They do not establish how much individual students improved during the year, and they do not measure the reading readiness of every younger child at this pre-K–5 school.
Niche lists 487 students and a 13:1 student-teacher ratio. That ratio compares enrollment with full-time-equivalent teachers; it does not mean each classroom contains 13 children.
Volunteer Reading Help and Practical Family Workshops
Miller’s 2026–27 family engagement action plan identifies Read United as an ongoing literacy support. The United Way of Central Georgia program pairs students with volunteers during the school day and uses leveled reading materials.
The plan also schedules workshops explaining assessment results and reading and math strategies families can use at home. A spring “Booknic” combines shared reading with guidance on comprehension.
These are concrete ways for families to connect classroom instruction with practice outside school.
Their availability does not establish that proficiency has improved, but it gives parents something more useful to investigate than the overall grade alone: which support their child receives, how frequently it happens and what progress teachers are seeing.
The plan also lists ongoing weekend snack bags supplied through a community partnership for students identified as needing additional resources.
Pearl Stephens Elementary School, Warner Robins — Overall Niche Grade: B−
Pearl Stephens Elementary serves grades three through five on Pearl Stephens Way. Its current Niche evaluation assigns B− grades overall, in academics and for teachers.
An Upper-Elementary School With Proficiency Gaps
Niche reports reading proficiency of 29% and math proficiency of 31%, drawing on 2024–25 Georgia assessments. Both figures leave a substantial share of tested students below the proficiency threshold.
The profile lists 436 students and a 14:1 student-teacher ratio.
Unlike a campus serving kindergarten through fifth grade, Pearl Stephens concentrates on the upper-elementary years, when students are building the reading independence and mathematical understanding they will need in middle school.
That grade span matters when interpreting its enrollment and school experience. Families are evaluating a three-grade campus, rather than a school that carries children through their entire elementary education.
STEAM Activities and a Clearer Connection Home
The school’s 2026–27 action plan schedules a November STEAM night built around science, technology, engineering, art and math activities connected to classroom standards.
It also includes reading-comprehension activities, math strategy sessions and an event explaining support for English learners.
Its current family information guide describes a weekly Wednesday folder containing graded work, behavior reports and school information. That provides a regular opportunity to see what a child understands before waiting for the next report card.
The guide also details Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, including recognition for expected behavior and a process for reteaching expectations when problems arise.
Clubs are available to students in grades three through five, with permission requirements and activity information sent home.
Together, these documents describe an established structure for family communication and student participation. The next useful question is how those supports connect to an individual child’s academic needs.
Parkwood Primary School, Warner Robins — Overall Niche Grade: C+
Parkwood’s C+ appears under its former name, Parkwood Elementary School, in Niche’s 2027 profile. The operating campus on Parkwood Drive is now Parkwood Primary, serving pre-K through second grade.
A Current Grade Attached to an Earlier Configuration
Niche gives Parkwood a C+ for academics and a B− for teachers. It reports 21% reading proficiency and 22% math proficiency from Georgia’s 2024–25 assessments.
Those results concern the school before its reorganization. They should not be read as test results for the children attending today’s pre-K–2 campus, which no longer contains the third- through fifth-grade students taking those elementary Georgia Milestones assessments.
The same caution applies to Niche’s enrollment snapshot of 683 students and its 13:1 student-teacher ratio: the profile still describes the former pre-K–5 school. Those figures are not a verified head count or staffing ratio for the reorganized primary campus.
Younger Children Now Share a Path to Westside
The district’s 2026–27 school directory confirms Parkwood’s primary-school name and grade span. Its attendance-zone explanation describes a shared zone with Westside, with younger students attending Parkwood and grades three through five attending Westside.
That makes early literacy, kindergarten readiness and the eventual transition to third grade particularly relevant for Parkwood families.
Evaluating the current school requires information about those early years, rather than relying on an older upper-elementary proficiency figure.
Principal Kelly Munn continues to lead the campus. In her school introduction, she describes teachers planning collaboratively around instruction and student achievement.
The reorganization is a change in how the community’s children move through school. Its educational results will need to be assessed through evidence from the new arrangement; the change itself does not establish improvement.
Westside Elementary School, Warner Robins — Overall Niche Grade: C+
Westside Elementary, on North Pleasant Hill Road, now serves grades three through five. Its 2027 Niche profile gives it a C+ overall and in academics, alongside a B− for teachers.
Older Results Meet a New Student Arrangement
Niche reports 22% reading proficiency and 21% math proficiency from 2024–25 assessments. Those results identify academic concerns in the earlier school population, before Westside became the upper-elementary partner for Parkwood’s shared attendance zone.
Its profile still lists pre-K through fifth grade, 543 students and a 13:1 student-teacher ratio. Families should treat those as figures from the earlier configuration, rather than current measures of the reorganized campus.
Future comparisons will require care. A change in the children attending a school can affect its reported results, so a higher or lower schoolwide percentage would need to be examined alongside the new enrollment arrangement.
Academic Bowl, Arts and Fifth-Grade STEAM
Westside’s 2026–27 student playbook lists Academic Bowl, art club, Westside Singers, dance groups and fifth-grade STEAM among its extracurricular opportunities.
Participation comes with club guidelines, and sponsors provide information about tryouts where applicable. Families should confirm the current schedule and requirements for the activity their child wants to join.
The playbook also describes reading screening, MAP assessments and i-Ready diagnostic testing.
Those tools give teachers information during the school year, rather than only at its end; their use alone does not demonstrate that students are making sufficient progress.
For a child entering Westside from Parkwood, the practical issue is how teachers use that information to identify unfinished learning and provide appropriately challenging work.
The school’s combination of academic monitoring and extracurricular options offers several specific points for families to explore.
Houston County’s Elementary Schools Serve Different Stages
The county’s graded Niche entries range from A to C+, with most receiving B or A-range grades. The four featured schools occupy the lower end of that field, but the comparison includes primary schools, upper-elementary campuses and schools serving pre-K through fifth grade.
Those differences shape what the numbers describe. A third-grade family and a kindergarten family may be looking for different evidence, even when comparing schools in the same district.
Under Niche’s 2027 public elementary methodology, overall evaluations combine academic and teacher measures with district quality, culture and diversity, and parent or student feedback. They therefore reflect more than standardized-test proficiency.
For academic context, Georgia’s CCRPI reporting system also examines student progress. Its growth measures address a different question from proficiency: how students advance relative to academically similar students, rather than simply whether they reach a defined standard.
That distinction is particularly useful when discussing intervention. Families need to know both where a child stands and whether the help being provided is moving that child forward.
