Belmont Hills Elementary School

Belmont Hills Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in Smyrna, Georgia, part of Cobb County, with 267 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 56% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Cobb County comprises 110 schools with combined enrollment of 105,738 students; Belmont Hills Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Belmont Hills Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 16% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Belmont Hills Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Belmont Hills Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Belmont Hills Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 27.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cobb County) shows that median household income runs about $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), Belmont Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Campbell High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Belmont Hills Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 352 students in 2018 compared to 267 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 70% to 75% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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