Cedar Shoals High School

Cedar Shoals High School operates as a reasonably sized high school in Athens, Georgia, overseen by Clarke County. Current enrollment sits at 1,489 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 33% larger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Clarke County comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 12,275 students; Cedar Shoals High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Cedar Shoals High School reports that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 35% Hispanic, 13% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Clarke County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Cedar Shoals High School shows 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Cedar Shoals High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Clarke County runs at roughly 91%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cedar Shoals High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clarke County) logs that median household earnings sit near $53,625, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Cedar Shoals High School is one of 22 public schools in Clarke County (combined enrollment of about 13,750 students).

Gaines Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cedar Shoals High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedar Shoals High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 1,448 students in 2018 compared to 1,489 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 56% to 47% over that span.

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