A.L. Burruss Elementary School

A.L. Burruss Elementary School, a close-knit elementary campus in Marietta, Georgia, overseen by Marietta City, hosts 409 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Marietta City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,664 students. A.L. Burruss Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, A.L. Burruss Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Black (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 32% White, 22% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, A.L. Burruss Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Cobb County shows median household earnings sit near $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), A.L. Burruss Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Marietta High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around A.L. Burruss Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A.L. Burruss Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. A.L. Burruss Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 409). White enrollment moved from 39% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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