Glenn Hills High School

Glenn Hills High School is one of the modestly sized secondary schools in Augusta, Georgia, run under Richmond County, with 839 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 1,120.

Richmond County comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 30,573 students; Glenn Hills High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Glenn Hills High School shows that nearly all students (88%) are Black. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Richmond County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Glenn Hills High School reports 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glenn Hills High School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.7%; Glenn Hills High School posts 4.7%, -21.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Richmond County shows median household earnings sit near $55,637, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Glenn Hills High School is one of 58 public schools in Richmond County (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students).

The closest other public school is Glenn Hills Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Glenn Hills High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 15.4%.

Glenn Hills High School operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 24%: 677 students in 2018 compared to 839 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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