Ball Ground Elementary School

Ball Ground Elementary School is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Ball Ground, Georgia, overseen by Cherokee County, instructing 663 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Cherokee County, which oversees 37 schools and 42,031 students, Ball Ground Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ball Ground Elementary School records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cherokee County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Ball Ground Elementary School reports 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at Ball Ground Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Ball Ground Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.6%; this one delivers 51.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cherokee County) logs that median household earnings sit near $108,115, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Cherokee County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students), Ball Ground Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Tate Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ball Ground Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.2%.

Ball Ground Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ball Ground Elementary School has ticked up 25%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 663 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 93% to 85%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.