Buford Elementary School

Set in Buford, Georgia, Buford Elementary School is a tight-knit K-5 school, overseen by Buford City. It teaches 431 students across grades pre-K through K. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Buford Elementary School sits 29% leaner than that benchmark.

Buford City runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 6,007 students. Buford Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Buford Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 26% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Gwinnett County (around 60%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Across the wider county, Gwinnett County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,890, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Gwinnett County runs 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), of which Buford Elementary School is one.

Buford Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Buford Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 44% since 2018, when it stood at 765 (now 431). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 3% to 9%.

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