Dorothy Hains Elementary School

As a tight-knit K-5 school in Augusta, Georgia, Dorothy Hains Elementary School serves 479 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Richmond County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Dorothy Hains Elementary School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Richmond County runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 30,573 students. Dorothy Hains Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Dorothy Hains Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%). Other groups include 8% White, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Dorothy Hains Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 16.1%, a residual of -9.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Richmond County reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,637 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Richmond County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), Dorothy Hains Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Butler High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dorothy Hains Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 15.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dorothy Hains Elementary School has decreased 21%, going from 608 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 13% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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