Fire Station #2 is located in Ball Ground. In the United States House of Representatives, Ball Ground is split between Georgia's 9th congressional district and Georgia's 11th congressional district. For representation in the state government, Ball Ground is part of the Georgia State Senate's 21st district, and the 22nd district for the Georgia House of Representatives. Education Public education for students in Ball Ground is administrated by the Cherokee County School District and students within the city attend Ball Ground Elementary School, Creekland Middle School, and Creekview High School. High School students in Ball Ground also have the option of attending Mountain Education Charter High School (MECHS), an alternative school program that offers evening classes for obtaining a high school diploma. While MECHS has eighteen campuses throughout the North Georgia area, the Cherokee County classes of MECHS are held at the Etowah High School campus in Woodstock, Georgia. TLE Christian Academy at Gospel Outreach Inc is the only private school in Ball Ground and is a private K-12 school with a 2021 enrollment of 30 students. The nearest college or university to Ball Ground is Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia in Cherokee County, from Ball Ground. Media As part of the North Georgia area, Ball Ground's primary network-affiliated television stations are WXIA-TV (NBC), WANF (CBS), WSB-TV (ABC), and WAGA-TV (Fox). WGTV is the local station of the statewide Georgia Public Television network and is a PBS member station. The city is served by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which serves the metro-Atlanta area including all of Cherokee County and by the Cherokee Tribune & Ledger-News, which serves as Cherokee County's legal organ. Infrastructure Transportation Interstate 575 passes through Ball Ground in a southwest-to-northeast direction and the interstate's exit 27, which is also within the city limits, exits onto Howell Bridge Road in Ball Ground. Ball Ground's Exit 27 is the last northbound exit on 575 before the interstate's northern terminus. Portions of Howell Bridge Road are also named State Route 5 Business, which runs through the city in a general west-to-east direction, and intersects with Georgia State Route 5 (also called Ball Ground Highway) within the city. State Route 5 runs parallel to Interstate 575 within the city limits in a similar southwest-to-northeast direction. Georgia State Route 372 (which within the city limits is also named Ball Ground Road, Gilmer Ferry Road, and then A W Roberts Drive) runs through Ball Ground