Hightower Trail Elementary School

As a low-enrollment elementary campus in Conyers, Georgia, Hightower Trail Elementary School educates 500 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Rockdale County.

Rockdale County runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 15,342 students. Hightower Trail Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hightower Trail Elementary School lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 14% White, 5% multiracial. Compared to Rockdale County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hightower Trail Elementary School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Hightower Trail Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.0%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Rockdale County put the typical household earns roughly $77,247 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hightower Trail Elementary School is one of 19 public schools in Rockdale County (combined enrollment of about 15,355 students).

Nearest neighbor: Conyers Middle School, around 2.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Hightower Trail Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hightower Trail Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hightower Trail Elementary School has ticked down 19%, going from 617 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 23% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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