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Enrollment
797
Elementary
DISTRICT 718 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAULDING COUNTY·NCES 130402001476
Hiram Elementary School
200 Seaboard Ave, Hiram, GA 30141 · (770) 443-3392 · Paulding County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL797 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Georgia public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
570 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 32 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 133 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 182 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 46% smaller than its 5th grade class (182).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
28.0%
GA avg 40.1% . -2.9pp since 2021
Math
28.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +3.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 up about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 28.2% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 27.5% |
| 2022-23 | 27.6% | 26.7% |
| 2021-22 | 30.8% | 24.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Hiram Elementary School
Hiram Elementary School's state test result (28.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiram Elementary School this school | 797 | 71.5% | 28.6% |
| Birch Creek Elementary School McDonough | 745 | 74.4% | N/A |
| West Chatham Elementary School Pooler | 796 | 77.0% | 29.9% |
| Joseph Martin Elementary School Hinesville | 720 | 76.0% | 31.0% |
| Lovin Elementary School Lawrenceville | 856 | 72.4% | 48.7% |
| Rice Creek School Port Wentworth | 1,011 | 74.6% | 26.1% |
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 Hiram Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Paulding County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #844 of 1,208 | #16 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #900 of 1,215 ▼ 3 | #19 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #798 of 1,215 ▼ 133 | #17 of 19 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.4pp | #725 of 1,183 | #9 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 797 | #237 of 1,324 | #7 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #620 of 1,301 | #12 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #570 of 1,301 | #16 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.5% | #815 of 1,312 | #3 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.1% | #854 of 854 | #9 of 9 |
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
797
+37 (+5%) vs 2020
+54% since 1990-91, when it was 518
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 797 | 60 | 13.3:1 | 72% (570) |
| 2023-24 | 786 | 60 | 13.1:1 | 72% (566) |
| 2022-23 | 816 | 55.1 | 14.8:1 | 61% (495) |
| 2020-21 | 760 | 56 | 13.6:1 | 59% (445) |
| 2017-18 | 798 | 55 | 14.5:1 | 61% (487) |
| 2015-16 | 712 | 50 | 14.2:1 | 57% (408) |
| 2010-11 | 638 | 41 | 15.6:1 | 56% (358) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 31% (183) |
| 1990-91 | 518 | 31 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hiram Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (798 to 797); teachers up 9% (55 to 60).
About Hiram Elementary School
The public elementary school Hiram Elementary School is located in Hiram, Georgia. A total of 797 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. Against the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia, enrollment here is 32% higher.
Paulding County (34 schools, 31,426 students) runs Hiram Elementary School.
Roughly 61% of students at Hiram Elementary School are Black. Other reported shares: 19% Hispanic, 12% White, and 7% multiracial. Paulding County's residents are about 23% Black, 37 points below the school's share. 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 Hiram Elementary School is 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.3:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 72%. The gap from the 51% average for public schools in Paulding County is 21 points.
The allk12 Grade for Hiram Elementary School is C-. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 15% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Hiram Elementary School would be expected to post about 40.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 28.6%.
In Paulding County (population about 178,909), the median household income is $98,031, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. There are 34 public schools in Paulding County, enrolling about 31,426 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, Hiram High School is the closest, at about 1.0 miles. Hiram Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Hiram Elementary School comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 5% from 2020-21, when Hiram Elementary School had 760 students, to 2024-25, when it had 797.
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Paulding County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
178,909
Census ACS
Median income
$98,031
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
31,426 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Paulding County
- North Paulding High SchoolHigh · 3,015 students
- Paulding County High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- East Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,985 students
- South Paulding High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Hiram High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- Floyd L. Shelton Elementary School at CrossroadElementary · 1,389 students
Other schools in Hiram
- Hiram High SchoolHigh · 1,460 students
- McGarity Elementary SchoolElementary · 572 students
- Sam D. Panter Elementary SchoolElementary · 506 students
Nearby schools
- Hiram High School1.0 mi · 1,460
- Sam D. Panter Elementary School1.6 mi · 506
- McGarity Elementary School1.9 mi · 572
- P. B. Ritch Middle School2.6 mi · 690
- Bessie L. Baggett Elementary3.0 mi · 549
- J. A. Dobbins Middle School3.2 mi · 531
Frequently asked questions
About Hiram Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Hiram Elementary School?
Hiram Elementary School enrolls approximately 797 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Hiram Elementary School serve?
Hiram Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Hiram Elementary School?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Hiram Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Hiram Elementary School?
Student demographics at Hiram Elementary School are roughly 12% White, 19% Hispanic, 61% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Hiram Elementary School public or private?
Hiram Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Paulding County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.