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Enrollment
560
Elementary
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENRY COUNTY·NCES 130282001655
Hickory Flat Elementary School
841 Brannan Rd, McDonough, GA 30253 · (770) 898-0107 · Henry County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL560 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
369 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
28.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -3.1pp since 2021
Math
23.9%
GA avg 44.6% . -5.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.7% | 23.9% |
| 2023-24 | 28.2% | 24.3% |
| 2022-23 | 25.8% | 26.2% |
| 2021-22 | 31.7% | 29.5% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.3%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hickory Flat Elementary School
Hickory Flat Elementary School's state test result (25.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory Flat Elementary School this school | 560 | 65.9% | 25.7% |
| Lane Elementary School Macon | 484 | 64.9% | 32.2% |
| Pate's Creek Elementary School Stockbridge | 497 | 67.0% | 22.5% |
| Bethlehem Elementary School Locust Grove | 630 | 70.6% | 25.0% |
| Luella Elementary School Locust Grove | 616 | 70.8% | 28.8% |
| Red Oak Elementary School Stockbridge | 638 | 70.5% | 28.3% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hickory Flat Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Henry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #912 of 1,208 | #18 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #984 of 1,215 ▼ 26 | #23 of 28 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #763 of 1,215 ▲ 70 | #15 of 28 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.3pp | #168 of 1,183 | #2 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 560 | #701 of 1,324 | #18 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #997 of 1,301 | #16 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.6% | #915 of 1,301 | #22 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.9% | #874 of 1,312 | #23 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #298 of 854 | #6 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
560
-16 (-3%) vs 2020
-37% since 2000-01, when it was 896
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 560 | 38.4 | 14.6:1 | 66% (369) |
| 2023-24 | 560 | 41.1 | 13.6:1 | 69% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 553 | 33.5 | 16.5:1 | 54% (297) |
| 2020-21 | 576 | 41 | 14.1:1 | 53% (305) |
| 2017-18 | 678 | 42 | 16.1:1 | 58% (394) |
| 2015-16 | 708 | 44 | 16.1:1 | 54% (385) |
| 2010-11 | 624 | 46 | 13.6:1 | 55% (346) |
| 2000-01 | 896 | 53 | 16.9:1 | 19% (171) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hickory Flat Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (678 to 560); teachers down 9% (42 to 38.4).
About Hickory Flat Elementary School
Hickory Flat Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school found in McDonough, Georgia. The school reports 560 students in pre-K through 5.
Henry County enrolls 43,012 students, and its 53 schools include Hickory Flat Elementary School.
Black students make up a majority at Hickory Flat Elementary School, at 75%. The next largest groups are 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 4% White. In Henry County overall, about 52% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 43% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Hickory Flat Elementary School is 38.4 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 14.6:1. That is higher than the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. The school counts 369 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 66%.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Hickory Flat Elementary School is 43.3%. It actually posts 25.7%, which is 17.6 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
County data help place the school in context: in Henry County, the median household income is $83,146, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Henry County is home to 54 public schools and about 43,102 public school students.
Of nearby public schools, Union Grove High is the closest, at about 1.9 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hickory Flat Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Hickory Flat Elementary School is 6th of 9 on proficiency.
Hickory Flat Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is down 3% from 2020-21, when Hickory Flat Elementary School had 576 students, to 2024-25, when it had 560.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Henry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
249,960
Census ACS
Median income
$83,146
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
43,102 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Henry County
- Dutchtown HighHigh · 1,821 students
- Union Grove HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Ola High SchoolHigh · 1,586 students
- Eagle's Landing High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Locust Grove HighHigh · 1,572 students
- Stockbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
Other schools in McDonough
- Union Grove HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Ola High SchoolHigh · 1,586 students
- Eagle's Landing High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- McDonough High SchoolHigh · 1,359 students
- Ola Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,039 students
- Union Grove MiddleMiddle · 1,033 students
Other Hickory Flat Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Hickory Flat Elementary. Hickory Flat Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Hickory Flat Elementary SchoolCanton, GA · 890 students
Nearby schools
- Union Grove High1.9 mi · 1,622
- Flippen Elementary School2.0 mi · 559
- East Lake Elementary2.1 mi · 671
- Union Grove Middle2.2 mi · 1,033
- Eagle's Landing High School2.5 mi · 1,578
- Eagle's Landing Middle School2.6 mi · 974
Frequently asked questions
About Hickory Flat Elementary SchoolHow large is Hickory Flat Elementary School?
Hickory Flat Elementary School enrolls approximately 560 students in grades PK-05.
Is Hickory Flat Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hickory Flat Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hickory Flat Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hickory Flat Elementary School is approximately 14.6:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hickory Flat Elementary School?
At Hickory Flat Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 10% Hispanic, 75% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Hickory Flat Elementary School public or private?
Hickory Flat Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Henry County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.