Acworth Elementary School

Acworth Elementary School is a cozy elementary school in Acworth, Georgia, overseen by Cobb County. The school hosts 499 students in grades 2 through 5.

Cobb County comprises 110 schools with combined enrollment of 105,738 students; Acworth Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Acworth Elementary School reports that 32% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 26% White, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Acworth Elementary School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cobb County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Acworth Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 43.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cobb County shows median household earnings sit near $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), Acworth Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Barber Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Acworth Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Acworth Elementary School has shrank 27%, going from 681 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 23% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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