Ball Ground, GA schools
Ball Ground’s public schools score well above Georgia’s averages: 48% of students are proficient in reading against 38.5% statewide, and 90% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.8%. Kids attend Ball Ground Elementary School through grade 5, then one of 7 middle schools and one of 6 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Ball Ground’s School Grade: A
The public schools Ball Ground’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 85% of Georgia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Georgia’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Georgia only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Georgia with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Ball Ground kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
90% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #96 of 256 GA towns →
The district serving Ball Ground
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Ball Ground
There’s no college in Ball Ground, but 9 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Reinhardt University in Waleska, 10.7 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Ball Ground. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 1 school in Ball Ground
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Ball Ground kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Ball Ground’s district that are located in Woodstock and Canton. Which one depends on your address.