Sugar Hill Elementary

As a mid-tier K-5 school in Gainesville, Georgia, Sugar Hill Elementary educates 685 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Hall County.

Hall County runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 28,028 students. Sugar Hill Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sugar Hill Elementary records that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 7% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Hall County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Sugar Hill Elementary logs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Sugar Hill Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at Sugar Hill Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Hall County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sugar Hill Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 28.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hall County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $80,901 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hall County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,525 students), Sugar Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Myers Elementary School, roughly 2.8 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sugar Hill Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 24.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sugar Hill Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 679 students in 2018 to 685 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 76% to 89% over that span.

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