Jordan Hill Road Elementary School

Jordan Hill Road Elementary School operates as a modestly sized elementary school in Griffin, Georgia, part of Griffin-Spalding County. Current enrollment sits at 396 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 35% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within Griffin-Spalding County, which oversees 18 schools and 9,350 students, Jordan Hill Road Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Jordan Hill Road Elementary School shows that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 31% White, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Jordan Hill Road Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.8%; this one delivers 26.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Spalding County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,071 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Spalding County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,350 students), of which Jordan Hill Road Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Atkinson Elementary School, around 1.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jordan Hill Road Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jordan Hill Road Elementary School has ticked down 7%, going from 426 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 31% across the same window.

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