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Hull-Sanford Elementary School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 9 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hull-Sanford Elementary School
Hull-Sanford Elementary School is a low-enrollment primary school in Hull, Georgia, one of the schools within Madison County. The school hosts 494 students in grades K through 5.
Across the 7 schools in Madison County (5,165 students total), Hull-Sanford Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Hull-Sanford Elementary School lists that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 20% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Hull-Sanford Elementary School records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Madison County's rate of about 87%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hull-Sanford Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 44.5%, a residual of +18.8 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Madison County) records that the typical household earns roughly $61,963 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Madison County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,165 students), Hull-Sanford Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Judia Jackson Harris Elementary, roughly 2.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hull-Sanford Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 30.7%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hull-Sanford Elementary School has shrank 17%, going from 594 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 18% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.
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