Sardis Elementary School

Set in Gainesville, Georgia, Sardis Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, part of Hall County. It serves 556 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Sardis Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school reports 35% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Hall County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Sardis Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at Sardis Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sardis Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Hall County shows median household earnings sit near $80,901, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Sardis Elementary School is one of 49 public schools in Hall County (combined enrollment of about 36,525 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chestatee Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sardis Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Sardis Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Sardis Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 669 (now 556). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 29% to 35% over that span.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.