Chestnut Mountain Elementary School

Located at 4841 Union Church Rd, in Flowery Branch, Georgia, Chestnut Mountain Elementary School is a sizable primary school that enrolls 918 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Hall County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Chestnut Mountain Elementary School sits 52% bigger than that benchmark.

Hall County comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 28,028 students; Chestnut Mountain Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Chestnut Mountain Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest reads as 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hall County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Chestnut Mountain Elementary School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at Chestnut Mountain Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hall County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Chestnut Mountain Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.0%; this one delivers 46.9%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hall County put median household earnings sit near $80,901, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hall County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,525 students), of which Chestnut Mountain Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: World Language Academy, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chestnut Mountain Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chestnut Mountain Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Chestnut Mountain Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 21% since 2018, when it stood at 761 (now 918). The White share of enrollment fell from 70% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.