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Enrollment
479
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND COUNTY·NCES 130438001570
Dorothy Hains Elementary School
1820 Windsor Spring Rd, Augusta, GA 30906 · (706) 796-4918 · Richmond County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL479 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
479 students
DISTRICT 94% · STATE 74%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
19.9%
GA avg 40.1% . +6.6pp since 2021
Math
13.1%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.9% | 13.1% |
| 2023-24 | 14.9% | 16.0% |
| 2022-23 | 12.8% | 12.8% |
| 2021-22 | 13.2% | 14.1% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Dorothy Hains Elementary School
Dorothy Hains Elementary School's state test result (16.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Hains Elementary School this school | 479 | 100.0% | 16.1% |
| Rigdon Road Elementary School Columbus | 437 | 100.0% | 13.2% |
| Waddell Elementary School Columbus | 520 | 100.0% | 20.9% |
| Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts Jonesboro | 518 | 100.0% | 39.7% |
| Meadowbrook Elementary School Augusta | 447 | 100.0% | 13.5% |
| Cooper-Carver Elementary School Dawson | 440 | 100.0% | 27.5% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Dorothy Hains Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Richmond County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.1% | #1,128 of 1,208 | #15 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #1,169 of 1,215 ▼ 54 | #19 of 29 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #1,018 of 1,215 ▲ 119 | #12 of 29 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #546 of 1,183 | #10 of 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 479 | #907 of 1,324 | #13 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #898 of 1,301 | #23 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.9% | #1,023 of 1,301 | #14 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #371 of 1,312 | #15 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.2% | #211 of 854 | #5 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
479
+20 (+4%) vs 2020
+52% since 1990-91, when it was 316
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 479 | 33.7 | 14.2:1 | 100% (479) |
| 2023-24 | 426 | 30.2 | 14.1:1 | 100% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 445 | 36 | 12.4:1 | 98% (436) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 34 | 13.5:1 | 98% (450) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 38.9 | 15.6:1 | 96% (586) |
| 2015-16 | 540 | 30 | 18.0:1 | 97% (523) |
| 2010-11 | 367 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 95% (347) |
| 2000-01 | 386 | 25 | 15.4:1 | 85% (327) |
| 1990-91 | 316 | 24 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dorothy Hains Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (608 to 479); teachers down 13% (38.9 to 33.7).
About Dorothy Hains Elementary School
Augusta, Georgia, is home to Dorothy Hains Elementary School, a small elementary school. The school counts 479 students across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 21% smaller than the 605 average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Across its 52 schools, Richmond County enrolls 30,573 students. Dorothy Hains Elementary School is one of those schools.
About 81% of the student body at Dorothy Hains Elementary School is Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 8% White, 6% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. In Richmond County overall, about 56% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 34% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 14.2:1 comes from the school's 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. The lunch program counts 100% of students at Dorothy Hains Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Dorothy Hains Elementary School would be expected to post about 25.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 16.1%.
Census estimates describe Richmond County this way: the median household income is $55,637, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 17% of people live in poverty. Besides Dorothy Hains Elementary School, Richmond County has 57 other public schools.
Butler High School is located about 0.6 miles from Dorothy Hains Elementary School. The five-mile area around Dorothy Hains Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 15.5%, lower than Dorothy Hains Elementary School's 16.1%.
The NCES locale for Dorothy Hains Elementary School is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal data show a 4% enrollment increase, from 459 in 2020-21 to 479 in 2024-25.
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Richmond County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
206,069
Census ACS
Median income
$55,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
58
31,674 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Richmond County
- Academy of Richmond County High SchoolHigh · 1,178 students
- Cross Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,152 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 1,088 students
- Hephzibah High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- Butler High SchoolHigh · 878 students
- Glenn Hills High SchoolHigh · 839 students
Other schools in Augusta
- Academy of Richmond County High SchoolHigh · 1,178 students
- Cross Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,152 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 1,088 students
- Butler High SchoolHigh · 878 students
- Glenn Hills High SchoolHigh · 839 students
- Belair Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
Nearby schools
- Butler High School0.6 mi · 878
- Richmond Hill Middle School1.3 mi · 667
- Richmond Hill Elementary School1.4 mi · 765
- Augusta Regional Youth Detention Center1.5 mi · 11
- Augusta Youth Development Campus1.5 mi · 28
- Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School1.9 mi · 433
Frequently asked questions
About Dorothy Hains Elementary SchoolHow large is Dorothy Hains Elementary School?
Dorothy Hains Elementary School enrolls approximately 479 students in grades PK-05.
Is Dorothy Hains Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Dorothy Hains Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Dorothy Hains Elementary School have?
Dorothy Hains Elementary School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Dorothy Hains Elementary School?
Student demographics at Dorothy Hains Elementary School are roughly 8% White, 6% Hispanic, 81% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is Dorothy Hains Elementary School in?
Dorothy Hains Elementary School is part of Richmond County.
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