Button Gwinnett Elementary School

Set in Hinesville, Georgia, Button Gwinnett Elementary School is a well-populated elementary school, operated by Liberty County. It educates 1,162 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 92% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Liberty County comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 10,925 students; Button Gwinnett Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Button Gwinnett Elementary School shows that 60% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 17% White, 14% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, Button Gwinnett Elementary School records 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Button Gwinnett Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Button Gwinnett Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.0%, the actual is 27.2%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the broader community, Liberty County reports that median household income runs about $60,456, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Liberty County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,925 students), of which Button Gwinnett Elementary School is one.

Bradwell Institute is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Button Gwinnett Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Button Gwinnett Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.9%.

Button Gwinnett Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Button Gwinnett Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,110 (now 1,162). The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 12% to 7% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Button Gwinnett Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.