Arnold Mill Elementary School

Located at 710 Arnold Mill Rd, in Woodstock, Georgia, Arnold Mill Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 767 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Cherokee County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Arnold Mill Elementary School sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 37 schools in Cherokee County (42,031 students total), Arnold Mill Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Arnold Mill Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 5% Asian. By comparison, Cherokee County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Cherokee County's rate of about 37%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Arnold Mill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 62.4%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cherokee County put the typical household earns roughly $108,115 per year, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cherokee County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students), of which Arnold Mill Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Little River Elem., roughly 2.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arnold Mill Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

Arnold Mill Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 809 students in 2018 compared to 767 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 78% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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