Long Branch Elementary School

Long Branch Elementary School operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in Dahlonega, Georgia, one of the schools within Lumpkin County. Current enrollment sits at 403 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

Within Lumpkin County, which oversees 5 schools and 3,754 students, Long Branch Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Long Branch Elementary School lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lumpkin County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Long Branch Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 45.2%, a residual of +4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lumpkin County put the typical household earns roughly $77,448 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lumpkin County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,754 students), Long Branch Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cottrell Elementary School, around 3.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Long Branch Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Long Branch Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 403). Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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