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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Friendship Elementary School, Buford, GA

Friendship Elementary School is a public elementary school in Buford, part of Hall County Public Schools. It enrolled 673 students in 2024-25, with 15.3 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
673
Teachers (FTE)
44.0
Students per teacher
15.3
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 0.9 higher than the district figure of 14.4. The Georgia average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.3
District14.4
Georgia14.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
4450 Friendship Rd, Buford, GA 30519
Phone
(770)932-1223
District
Hall County Public Schools
County
Hall County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Midsize
NCES school ID
130261001268
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
349
Reduced-price lunch
73
Free or reduced-price lunch
42262.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification
178Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Hall County Public Schools

Elementary schools elsewhere in Buford

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.