Buford Senior Academy

Buford Senior Academy is one of the well-populated elementary schools in Buford, Georgia, overseen by Buford City, with 1,368 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Buford Senior Academy sits 126% bigger than that benchmark.

Buford City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 6,007 students; Buford Senior Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Buford Senior Academy logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 10% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Buford Senior Academy records 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Buford Senior Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Gwinnett County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, Buford Senior Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.3%; this one delivers 67.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Gwinnett County) logs that median household earnings sit near $87,890, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Gwinnett County's 150 public schools (combined enrollment of about 196,924 students), Buford Senior Academy is one campus in the mix.

Buford Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Buford Senior Academy comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

Buford Senior Academy operates from a commuter-belt location.

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