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What tradition at McEver Elementary School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
487
Elementary
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HALL COUNTY·NCES 130261001165
McEver Elementary School
3265 Montgomery Dr, Gainesville, GA 30504 · (770) 534-7473 · Hall County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL487 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
13.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
417 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 | 21 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
23.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +6.7pp since 2021
Math
37.3%
GA avg 44.6% . +6.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 37.3% |
| 2023-24 | 18.3% | 28.0% |
| 2022-23 | 16.6% | 29.9% |
| 2021-22 | 16.3% | 31.1% |
% 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
23.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.1%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 McEver Elementary School
McEver Elementary School's state test result (23.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| McEver Elementary School this school | 487 | 85.6% | 23.5% |
| Tadmore Elementary School Gainesville | 488 | 91.4% | 20.7% |
| Roan Elementary School Dalton | 421 | 88.6% | 31.9% |
| Myers Elementary School Gainesville | 524 | 91.4% | 29.3% |
| Woodward Elementary School Brookhaven | 553 | 84.6% | 20.6% |
| Montclair Elementary School Brookhaven | 590 | 83.6% | 14.5% |
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 McEver Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Hall County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #962 of 1,208 | #20 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #677 of 1,215 ▲ 212 | #12 of 26 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #933 of 1,215 ▲ 153 | #16 of 26 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.5pp | #283 of 1,183 | #3 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 487 | #888 of 1,324 | #24 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #777 of 1,301 | #7 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.2% | #1,119 of 1,301 | #24 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.6% | #637 of 1,312 | #7 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.8% | #682 of 854 | #11 of 11 |
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
487
+13 (+3%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 391
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 487 | 35.3 | 13.8:1 | 86% (417) |
| 2023-24 | 538 | 38.1 | 14.1:1 | 89% (477) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 37.3 | 14.5:1 | 82% (445) |
| 2020-21 | 474 | 35 | 13.5:1 | 75% (357) |
| 2017-18 | 517 | 34.5 | 15.0:1 | 88% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 543 | 35 | 15.5:1 | 90% (490) |
| 2010-11 | 487 | 33 | 14.8:1 | 89% (431) |
| 2000-01 | 457 | 30 | 15.2:1 | 44% (203) |
| 1990-91 | 391 | 22 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for McEver Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (517 to 487); teachers up 2% (34.5 to 35.3).
About McEver Elementary School
McEver Elementary School is a small elementary school in Gainesville, Georgia. The student body numbers 487 students, from pre-K through 5.
McEver Elementary School sits within Hall County, which has 38 schools and 28,028 students.
At McEver Elementary School, Hispanic students make up 85% of the student body. It is also 11% White. Hall County's residents are about 29% Hispanic, 56 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, McEver Elementary School comes in at 26%.
Teachers at the school number 35.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.8:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 13.3:1, a similar figure. The school's lunch program data list 86% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 64% average for public schools in Hall County, the school's rate is higher.
McEver Elementary School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 18% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
McEver Elementary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 23.5% is 9.6 points below the 33.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Federal survey data for Hall County show that median household income is about $80,901, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. A total of 49 public schools operate in Hall County, serving about 36,525 students.
Gainesville Middle School West is the public school closest to McEver Elementary School, about 1.0 miles away. McEver Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. McEver Elementary School ranks 4th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 23.5% against a local average of 20.1%.
Locale data from NCES put McEver Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (Suburb: Mid-size).
The number of students grew from 474 to 487 over 4 years.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Hall County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
212,705
Census ACS
Median income
$80,901
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
36,525 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hall County
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 1,318 students
- Flowery Branch HighHigh · 1,304 students
- East Hall High SchoolHigh · 1,287 students
- West Hall High SchoolHigh · 1,274 students
- Chestatee High SchoolHigh · 1,245 students
- Cherokee Bluff High SchoolHigh · 1,202 students
Other schools in Gainesville
- Gainesville High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- East Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 1,318 students
- East Hall High SchoolHigh · 1,287 students
- Chestatee High SchoolHigh · 1,245 students
- North Hall High SchoolHigh · 1,164 students
Nearby schools
- Gainesville Middle School West1.0 mi · 931
- Gainesville Exploration Academy1.5 mi · 536
- Lyman Hall Elementary School2.0 mi · 785
- Mundy Mill Arts Academy2.0 mi · 825
- Gainesville High School2.9 mi · 2,077
- Lanier College and Career Academy3.0 mi · 169
Frequently asked questions
About McEver Elementary SchoolHow large is McEver Elementary School?
McEver Elementary School enrolls approximately 487 students in grades PK-05.
Is McEver Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
McEver Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at McEver Elementary School?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at McEver Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at McEver Elementary School?
At McEver Elementary School, the student body is approximately 11% White, 85% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is McEver Elementary School public or private?
McEver Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hall County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.