McEver Elementary School

Set in Gainesville, Georgia, McEver Elementary School is a compact primary school, overseen by Hall County. It serves 487 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Hall County comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 28,028 students; McEver Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, McEver Elementary School reports that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 11% White. By comparison, Hall County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Hall County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McEver Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hall County) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,901 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hall County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,525 students), of which McEver Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gainesville Middle School West, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts McEver Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 20.1%.

McEver Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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