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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 598 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKDALE COUNTY·NCES 130441002051
Hightower Trail Elementary School
2510 Highway 138 NE, Conyers, GA 30013 · (770) 388-0751 · Rockdale County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
468 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 74%
Community
5
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 | 21 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
21.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -6.7pp since 2021
Math
23.1%
GA avg 44.6% . -4.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.9% | 23.1% |
| 2023-24 | 26.1% | 22.3% |
| 2022-23 | 25.8% | 20.3% |
| 2021-22 | 28.6% | 27.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Hightower Trail Elementary School
Hightower Trail Elementary School's state test result (23.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hightower Trail Elementary School this school | 500 | 93.6% | 23.9% |
| Orrs Elementary School Griffin | 467 | 93.6% | 23.6% |
| Dooly County Elementary School Pinehurst | 508 | 100.0% | 14.7% |
| Cowan Road Elementary School Griffin | 557 | 89.2% | 16.4% |
| Barksdale Elementary School Conyers | 495 | 87.3% | 31.3% |
| Hendricks Elementary School Powder Springs | 538 | 98.5% | 35.0% |
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 Hightower Trail Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Rockdale County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #953 of 1,208 | #10 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #1,004 of 1,215 ▼ 7 | #9 of 11 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.9% | #960 of 1,215 ▼ 71 | #10 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.4pp | #120 of 1,183 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #852 of 1,324 | #8 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #357 of 1,301 | #5 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.9% | #561 of 1,301 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.6% | #540 of 1,312 | #6 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.0% | #257 of 854 | #3 of 10 |
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
500
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 756
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 12.5:1
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 | 500 | 40.5 | 12.3:1 | 94% (468) |
| 2023-24 | 498 | 44.6 | 11.2:1 | 87% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 533 | 44 | 12.1:1 | 81% (430) |
| 2020-21 | 501 | 40 | 12.5:1 | 63% (315) |
| 2017-18 | 617 | 44 | 14.0:1 | 73% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 667 | 46 | 14.5:1 | 75% (500) |
| 2010-11 | 736 | 49 | 15.0:1 | 67% (492) |
| 2000-01 | 573 | 35 | 16.4:1 | 40% (229) |
| 1990-91 | 756 | 40 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hightower Trail Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (617 to 500); teachers down 8% (44 to 40.5).
About Hightower Trail Elementary School
Conyers, Georgia, is home to Hightower Trail Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. Enrolled students number 500 students, in pre-K through 5.
District-wide, Rockdale County has 18 schools and 15,342 students.
Black students make up a majority at Hightower Trail Elementary School, at 60%. The remaining students are 19% Hispanic, 14% White, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, Rockdale County is about 58% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Hightower Trail Elementary School is 40.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.3:1. This ratio sits 1.0 below the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 94%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Hightower Trail Elementary School would score about 29.0%. It scores 23.9%, 5.0 points below that figure.
In the county around the school, Rockdale County, the median household income is $77,247, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Rockdale County is home to 19 public schools and about 15,355 public school students.
Of nearby public schools, Conyers Middle School is the closest, at about 2.5 miles. Hightower Trail Elementary School has 6 other public schools within five miles. Hightower Trail Elementary School comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, Hightower Trail Elementary School enrolled 501; in 2024-25, 500.
Topics for discussion here include enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Rockdale County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
95,281
Census ACS
Median income
$77,247
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
15,355 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockdale County
- Rockdale County High SchoolHigh · 2,336 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Salem High SchoolHigh · 1,118 students
- Conyers Middle SchoolMiddle · 943 students
- Edwards Middle SchoolMiddle · 934 students
- Hicks Elementary SchoolElementary · 878 students
Other schools in Conyers
- Rockdale County High SchoolHigh · 2,336 students
- Heritage High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Salem High SchoolHigh · 1,118 students
- Conyers Middle SchoolMiddle · 943 students
- Edwards Middle SchoolMiddle · 934 students
- Hicks Elementary SchoolElementary · 878 students
Nearby schools
- Conyers Middle School2.5 mi · 943
- Pine Street Elementary School2.6 mi · 679
- House Elementary School2.9 mi · 623
- Hicks Elementary School3.0 mi · 878
- Rockdale County High School3.2 mi · 2,336
- Flat Shoals Elementary School4.5 mi · 639
Frequently asked questions
About Hightower Trail Elementary SchoolHow large is Hightower Trail Elementary School?
Hightower Trail Elementary School enrolls approximately 500 students in grades PK-05.
Is Hightower Trail Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hightower Trail Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Hightower Trail Elementary School?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at Hightower Trail Elementary School.
How diverse is Hightower Trail Elementary School?
Hightower Trail Elementary School reports a student body of 14% White, 19% Hispanic, 60% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Hightower Trail Elementary School public or private?
Hightower Trail Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rockdale County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.