Allatoona Elementary School

Allatoona Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary-level community in Acworth, Georgia, run under Bartow County. The school caters to 413 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Allatoona Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Bartow County, a district that hosts 14,019 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Allatoona Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 42% White, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bartow County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Allatoona Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of +8.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bartow County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,243 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Bartow County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,705 students), of which Allatoona Elementary School is one.

Clark Creek Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Allatoona Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Allatoona Elementary School has contracted 3%, going from 425 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 58% to 42% over that span.

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