Friendship Elementary School

Friendship Elementary School is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Buford, Georgia, part of Hall County, hosting 673 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Friendship Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 38% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Friendship Elementary School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Friendship Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Friendship Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.9%; this one delivers 35.7%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hall County indicate median household income runs about $80,901, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Friendship Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Jones Middle School, roughly 2.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Friendship Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Friendship Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 69.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Friendship Elementary School has remained close to its prior level, going from 658 students in 2018 to 673 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 67% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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