Hill City Elementary School

As an average-sized primary school in Jasper, Georgia, Hill City Elementary School caters to 602 students from grades pre-K through 4, overseen by Pickens County.

Pickens County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,970 students; Hill City Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Hill City Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hill City Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.6%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pickens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,930 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Pickens County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,970 students), Hill City Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Jasper Middle School, roughly 4.8 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Hill City Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hill City Elementary School has ticked down 4%, going from 628 students in 2018 to 602 in 2025.

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