Addison Elementary School

Addison Elementary School is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Marietta, Georgia, part of Cobb County, educateing 571 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Cobb County, which oversees 110 schools and 105,738 students, Addison Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Addison Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 13% Black, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at Addison Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cobb County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Addison Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Cobb County reports that median household income runs about $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Addison Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Simpson Middle School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Addison Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.8%.

Addison Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 571 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 55% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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