Mirror Lake Elementary School

Set in Villa Rica, Georgia, Mirror Lake Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, operated by Douglas County. It instructs 554 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Douglas County comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 25,521 students; Mirror Lake Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Mirror Lake Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 16% White, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 50% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mirror Lake Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Douglas County) reports that median household income runs about $82,984, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Douglas County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,121 students), of which Mirror Lake Elementary School is one.

Glanton-Hindsman Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mirror Lake Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 18%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 554 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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