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North Hart Elementary School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 17 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 30 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 27% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About North Hart Elementary School
North Hart Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Bowersville, Georgia, part of Hart County. Current enrollment sits at 666 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 5 schools in Hart County (3,743 students total), North Hart Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, North Hart Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hart County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Hart Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 27.5%; North Hart Elementary School posts 54.1%, +26.6 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, census data for Hart County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,385 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hart County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,743 students), of which North Hart Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Hartwell Elementary School, roughly 4.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around North Hart Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Hart Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.5%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. North Hart Elementary School's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 643 (now 666).
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Hart County at a glance
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Related schools
- Hart County High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- Hart County Middle SchoolMiddle · 832 students
- South Hart Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Hartwell Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 students
- Hartwell Elementary School4.6 mi · 566
- Hart County High School4.8 mi · 1,071
- Hart County Middle School5.0 mi · 832
- Lavonia Elementary School6.4 mi · 575
- South Hart Elementary School6.4 mi · 608
- Royston Elementary School8.7 mi · 517