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What's something A.L. Burruss Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
409
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARIETTA CITY·NCES 130351001338
A.L. Burruss Elementary School
325 Manning Rd SW, Marietta, GA 30064 · (770) 429-3144 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL409 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
195 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 74%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 34% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
55.4%
GA avg 40.1% . +16.7pp since 2021
Math
54.0%
GA avg 44.6% . +13.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.4% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 54.5% |
| 2022-23 | 47.9% | 50.4% |
| 2021-22 | 38.7% | 40.8% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like A.L. Burruss Elementary School
A.L. Burruss Elementary School's state test result (54.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.L. Burruss Elementary School this school | 409 | 47.7% | 54.0% |
| Odyssey Charter School Newnan | 359 | 48.5% | N/A |
| Big Shanty Elementary School Kennesaw | 511 | 50.9% | 47.8% |
| Cleveland Elementary School Fayetteville | 414 | 47.3% | 53.8% |
| Kennesaw Elementary School Kennesaw | 560 | 51.3% | N/A |
| Jacob G. Smith Elementary School Savannah | 466 | 47.4% | 53.4% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where A.L. Burruss Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #279 of 1,208 | #24 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #337 of 1,215 ▲ 8 | #29 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #198 of 1,215 ▲ 14 | #24 of 72 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +15.0pp | #33 of 1,183 | #2 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 409 | #1,076 of 1,324 | #66 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #108 of 1,301 | #24 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #85 of 1,301 | #14 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.7% | #1,058 of 1,312 | #45 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #299 of 854 | #20 of 57 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
409
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 521
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 11.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 409 | 37.5 | 10.9:1 | 48% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 388 | 38.5 | 10.1:1 | 55% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 370 | 33.5 | 11.0:1 | 49% (181) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 35 | 11.6:1 | 48% (194) |
| 2017-18 | 495 | 38.6 | 12.8:1 | 41% (203) |
| 2015-16 | 451 | 35 | 12.9:1 | 47% (212) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 31 | 12.2:1 | 54% (205) |
| 2000-01 | 614 | 39 | 15.7:1 | 30% (184) |
| 1990-91 | 521 | 30 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for A.L. Burruss Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (495 to 409); teachers down 3% (38.6 to 37.5).
About A.L. Burruss Elementary School
A.L. Burruss Elementary School is a small elementary school in Marietta, Georgia. The school serves 409 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Georgia is roughly 605 students; this school is 32% smaller than that.
Marietta City, which runs A.L. Burruss Elementary School, has 13 schools and 8,664 students.
At A.L. Burruss Elementary School, the largest share of students is Black, at 35%. The school is also 32% White, 22% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. That is higher than the 27% Black share among all Cobb County residents. A.L. Burruss Elementary School's diversity index is 71%, against a US figure of 70%.
A ratio of 10.9:1 comes from the school's 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. The lunch program counts 48% of students at A.L. Burruss Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
A.L. Burruss Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 78% of Georgia public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, A.L. Burruss Elementary School would score about 52.7%. It scores 54.0%, 1.3 points above that figure.
In the county around the school, Cobb County, the median household income is $102,738, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Cobb County is home to 129 public schools and about 116,609 public school students.
The closest other public school is Marietta High School, about 0.6 miles away. A.L. Burruss Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. A.L. Burruss Elementary School ranks 2nd of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 54.0% against a local average of 47.9%.
A.L. Burruss Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 406 to 409.
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Cobb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
775,208
Census ACS
Median income
$102,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
116,609 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marietta City
- Marietta High SchoolHigh · 2,526 students
- Marietta Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,352 students
- Lockheed Elementary SchoolElementary · 734 students
- Marietta Sixth Grade AcademyMiddle · 678 students
- West Side Elementary SchoolElementary · 556 students
- Dunleith Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
Other schools in Marietta
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Marietta High SchoolHigh · 2,526 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
- Lassiter High SchoolHigh · 2,005 students
- Pope High SchoolHigh · 1,793 students
Nearby schools
- Marietta High School0.6 mi · 2,526
- Hickory Hills Elementary School0.8 mi · 440
- West Side Elementary School1.3 mi · 556
- Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center1.3 mi · 134
- Marietta Middle School1.4 mi · 1,352
- Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center1.9 mi · 18
Frequently asked questions
About A.L. Burruss Elementary SchoolHow many students attend A.L. Burruss Elementary School?
A.L. Burruss Elementary School enrolls approximately 409 students in grades PK-05.
Is A.L. Burruss Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
A.L. Burruss Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does A.L. Burruss Elementary School have?
A.L. Burruss Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at A.L. Burruss Elementary School?
Student demographics at A.L. Burruss Elementary School are roughly 32% White, 22% Hispanic, 35% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is A.L. Burruss Elementary School in?
A.L. Burruss Elementary School is part of Marietta City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.