Summary:
Ball Ground, Georgia is home to a single public elementary school, Ball Ground Elementary School, which serves grades PK-5 with an enrollment of 592 students. The school is part of the Cherokee County School District, which is ranked 28th out of 203 districts in Georgia and has a 4-star rating.
Ball Ground Elementary School has maintained a consistent statewide ranking between 373rd and 390th out of around 1,250 Georgia elementary schools over the past 3 school years, with a 3-4 star rating from SchoolDigger. The school's proficiency rates on the Georgia Milestones assessments are generally lower than the Cherokee County and state averages, particularly in English Language Arts. However, the school performs better than the state average in 5th grade Math and Science. With nearly a quarter of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, Ball Ground Elementary serves a relatively diverse student population in terms of socioeconomic status.
The school has a student-teacher ratio of 14.9 to 1, which is lower than the national average, and spent $10,779 per student in the 2018-2019 school year, a moderate amount. These factors suggest smaller class sizes and a reasonable level of resource allocation, which may contribute to the school's academic performance and ranking relative to other Georgia elementary schools.
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