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What's the biggest difference between Carmel Elementary School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
912
Elementary
DISTRICT 811 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHEROKEE COUNTY·NCES 130111002359
Carmel Elementary School
2275 Bascomb Carmel Rd, Woodstock, GA 30189 · (770) 704-1184 · Cherokee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL912 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% 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.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
12.2:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
494 students
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 74%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 142 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 142 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 145 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 149 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 156 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 159 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (142) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (159).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
45.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -8.3pp since 2021
Math
55.4%
GA avg 44.6% . -4.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.7% | 55.4% |
| 2023-24 | 50.8% | 53.5% |
| 2022-23 | 52.9% | 58.8% |
| 2021-22 | 54.0% | 59.8% |
% 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
52.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Carmel Elementary School
Carmel Elementary School's state test result (52.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel Elementary School this school | 912 | 54.2% | 52.5% |
| Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy Gainesville | 767 | 56.8% | 42.4% |
| Clark Creek Elementary School Acworth | 1,108 | 53.3% | 41.1% |
| J. Knox Elementary Canton | 909 | 48.7% | 54.1% |
| Chattahoochee Elementary School Cumming | 810 | 54.1% | 47.6% |
| Carrollton Upper Elementary Carrollton | 817 | 60.6% | 44.8% |
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 Carmel Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cherokee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.5% | #304 of 1,208 | #13 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #313 of 1,215 ▲ 48 | #16 of 23 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #334 of 1,215 ▼ 29 | #14 of 23 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.4pp | #84 of 1,183 | #1 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 912 | #127 of 1,324 | #8 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #325 of 1,301 | #4 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.8% | #161 of 1,301 | #2 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.2% | #1,002 of 1,312 | #4 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #398 of 854 | #3 of 11 |
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
912
-88 (-9%) vs 2020
-39% since 2000-01, when it was 1,485
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 912 | 74.6 | 12.2:1 | 54% (494) |
| 2023-24 | 891 | 74.5 | 12.0:1 | 53% (468) |
| 2022-23 | 900 | 81 | 11.1:1 | 47% (420) |
| 2020-21 | 1,000 | 77 | 13.0:1 | 43% (431) |
| 2017-18 | 1,062 | 69 | 15.4:1 | 44% (463) |
| 2015-16 | 1,089 | 70 | 15.6:1 | 42% (457) |
| 2010-11 | 1,294 | 75 | 17.3:1 | 34% (436) |
| 2000-01 | 1,485 | 74 | 20.1:1 | 18% (264) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carmel Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (1,062 to 912); teachers up 8% (69 to 74.6).
About Carmel Elementary School
Among the schools in Woodstock, Georgia, is Carmel Elementary School, a large elementary school. The school counts 912 students across pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Georgia is about 605 students.
Carmel Elementary School is part of a district of 37 schools: Cherokee County, with 42,031 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Carmel Elementary School. The largest is White students, at 41%. Other students are 34% Hispanic, 15% Black, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is lower than the 76% White share among all Cherokee County residents. The school's diversity index is 69%, meaning two students picked at random have a 69% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at Carmel Elementary School total 74.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.2:1. That is 1.1 students per teacher below the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 54%. The gap from the 37% average for public schools in Cherokee County is 17 points.
The allk12 Grade for Carmel Elementary School is B. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 61% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After adjusting for student poverty, Carmel Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Georgia schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 52.5%; the prediction is 49.4%.
Federal survey data for Cherokee County show that the median household income is $108,115, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 41% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Cherokee County is home to 38 public schools and about 42,642 public school students.
The shortest distance from Carmel Elementary School to another public school is about 1.4 miles, to Etowah High School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Carmel Elementary School is 4th on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Carmel Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 88 fewer students in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Carmel Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Cherokee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
281,032
Census ACS
Median income
$108,115
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
42,642 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cherokee County
- Cherokee High SchoolHigh · 3,012 students
- Etowah High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Creekview High SchoolHigh · 2,039 students
- Sequoyah High SchoolHigh · 2,021 students
- Woodstock High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- River Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,902 students
Other schools in Woodstock
- Etowah High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodstock High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- River Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,902 students
- E. T. Booth Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,675 students
- Mill Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,476 students
- Little River Elem.Elementary · 1,232 students
Other Carmel Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Carmel Elementary. Carmel Elementary School is the largest of the 5.
- Carmel ElementaryHesperia, CA · 804 students
- Carmel ElementaryClarksville, TN · 702 students
- Carmel Elementary SchoolCarmel, IN · 700 students
- Carmel Elementary SchoolCarmel, ME · 158 students
Nearby schools
- Etowah High School1.4 mi · 2,393
- E. T. Booth Middle School1.6 mi · 1,675
- Woodstock High School1.7 mi · 2,006
- Woodstock Middle School1.8 mi · 1,075
- Oak Grove Elementary School2.3 mi · 523
- Bascomb Elementary School2.4 mi · 911
Frequently asked questions
About Carmel Elementary SchoolHow large is Carmel Elementary School?
Carmel Elementary School enrolls approximately 912 students in grades PK-05.
Is Carmel Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Carmel Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Carmel Elementary School have?
Carmel Elementary School employs 75 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
How diverse is Carmel Elementary School?
Carmel Elementary School reports a student body of 41% White, 34% Hispanic, 15% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Carmel Elementary School?
Carmel Elementary School is overseen by Cherokee County in Cherokee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.