Gainesville Exploration Academy

Gainesville Exploration Academy, a medium-sized primary school in Gainesville, Georgia, run under Gainesville City, instructs 536 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Gainesville City comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 8,480 students; Gainesville Exploration Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, Gainesville Exploration Academy lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school lists 19% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hall County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Gainesville Exploration Academy has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hall County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gainesville Exploration Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 22.1%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Hall County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,901 per year, 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 Gainesville Exploration Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gainesville Middle School West, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gainesville Exploration Academy. On composite proficiency, Gainesville Exploration Academy comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gainesville Exploration Academy has decreased 29%, going from 755 students in 2018 to 536 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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