Carmel Elementary School

Set in Woodstock, Georgia, Carmel Elementary School is a heavily attended K-5 school, one of the schools within Cherokee County. It instructs 912 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 51% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Carmel Elementary School is one of 37 schools operated by Cherokee County, a district that caters to 42,031 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Carmel Elementary School reports that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 34% Hispanic, 15% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cherokee County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carmel Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 52.5%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Cherokee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $108,115 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Carmel Elementary School is one of 38 public schools in Cherokee County (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students).

Nearest neighbor: Etowah High School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carmel Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Carmel Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

Carmel Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carmel Elementary School has shrank 14%, going from 1,062 students in 2018 to 912 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 53% to 41%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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