Centennial Arts Academy

Centennial Arts Academy operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Gainesville, Georgia, run under Gainesville City. Current enrollment sits at 760 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 26% above typical.

Gainesville City runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 8,480 students. Centennial Arts Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Centennial Arts Academy logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% Black, 14% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Centennial Arts Academy has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Centennial Arts Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hall County (around 64%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Centennial Arts Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.8%; this one delivers 26.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hall County indicate median household income runs about $80,901, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hall County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,525 students), of which Centennial Arts Academy is one.

Gainesville High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Centennial Arts Academy comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Centennial Arts Academy's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 831 (now 760). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 21% to 14%.

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