Elbert County High School

Elbert County High School is one of the compact secondary schools in Elberton, Georgia, overseen by Elbert County, with 916 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Elbert County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,007 students; Elbert County High School is among them.

On demographics, Elbert County High School shows that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 39% Black, 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Elbert County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Elbert County High School has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at Elbert County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Elbert County High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.4%; this one delivers 20.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Elbert County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,450 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elbert County High School is one of 5 public schools in Elbert County (combined enrollment of about 3,007 students).

The closest other public school is Elbert County Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elbert County High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 13%: 811 students in 2018 compared to 916 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 55% to 45%.

On this page, members of the Elbert County High School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.