Futral Road Elementary School
180 Futral Road
Griffin GA, 30224
Phone: (770) 229-3735
Fax: (770) 233-6001
Principal: Larry Jones Jr.
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Assistant Principal: Karen Miller
Secretary: Nancy Williamson
Number of Students in Grades Pre-K-5: 703
Number of Faculty and Staff: 71
Projected pupil-teacher ratio-
Pre-K: 20:1 (plus a paraprofessional)
Kindergarten: 17:1 (plus a paraprofessional)
1st Grade: 19.6:1
2nd Grade: 16.6:1
3rd Grade: 18.3:1
4th Grade: 23.3:1
5th Grade: 24.6:1
Special school programs/activities/events
- Certified Art Teacher
- Math/Science Expose Day
- Grandparents Day
- Career Week
- Wolf-Cam (news broadcasting for 5th-graders)
- Integrated Technology in classrooms
- Big Bash
- Family Reading Nights
- Reading Buddies
- Math Tutors
- Junior Achievement
- Mentoring Program
- Character Education
- Challenge 24 competition
- School Nurse providing Health Instruction
- Environmental education trip for 5th-graders
- Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance
- Mathematics League competition
- Language Arts Olympiad
- Student of the Month
- Parent Governing Board
- PTO
- After-School Program (3-6 P.M.)
- 5-k Heart Hustle Run
- "Curtains Up for Kids" Theatre
- K-Kids
- Mileage Club
- Read and Lead with Spalding High School
Partners in Education:
Blackshear Photography
Central GA EMC
Championship Martial Arts
Coca-Cola
Dairy Queen
Georgia Energy & Engineering, Inc.
First Presbyterian Church
Lindsey Orthodontics
Manley, Spangler, & Smith
Mrs. Winner's
Murray Co. Realtors
Nilsa's Day Spa
Piggly Wiggly
Smiling Mallard
Spalding County Farm Bureau
Truett's Grill
Accomplishments of Students and Staff:
Teacher of the Year: Marsha Gamble
Named a Georgia School of Excellence in Student Achievement for the Georgia 3rd Congressional District for 2007-2008
Rated as fourth highest charter school in the state on Georgia Charter School Parent Satisfaction Survey for overall education of their child
Fire Safety Essay contest system winners
- Young Georgia Authors Writing Competition 2005-2006 Griffin-Spalding County District winners
- Fire Safety poster system winner
System winners in the Keep Griffin-Spalding Beautiful Contest Winners
Recipient of the $30,000 Georgia Council of the Arts Grant
Charter School
System and district Literacy Days Competition winners
DisneyHand Teacher Award nominees Andrea Smith and Viki Bozeman
Raised $1715.95 for Relay for Life
Received Agnes B. Hunt Trust Fund, Ecolab, Griffin Spalding Education Foundation and Partners in Education grants