West Jackson Elementary School

West Jackson Elementary School is an elementary campus of heavily attended scale in Hoschton, Georgia, one of the schools within Jackson County, hosting 1,082 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 79% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Across the 12 schools in Jackson County (11,160 students total), West Jackson Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, West Jackson Elementary School logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic, 14% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, West Jackson Elementary School lists 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Jackson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 52.1%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household income runs about $89,544, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. West Jackson Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 17,354 students).

Nearest neighbor: Heroes Elementary School, around 3.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around West Jackson Elementary School. On composite proficiency, West Jackson Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

West Jackson Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 23%: 880 students in 2018 compared to 1,082 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 71% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for West Jackson Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.