Glenn Hills Elementary School

Glenn Hills Elementary School is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in Augusta, Georgia, part of Richmond County, enrolling 370 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 39% below typical.

Glenn Hills Elementary School is one of 52 schools operated by Richmond County, a district that instructs 30,573 students overall.

On demographics, Glenn Hills Elementary School logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at Glenn Hills Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Glenn Hills Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.7%; actual is 9.4%, a gap of -16.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Richmond County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $55,637 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Richmond County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), Glenn Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Glenn Hills High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glenn Hills Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Glenn Hills Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 14.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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