Cheatham Hill Elementary School

Cheatham Hill Elementary School is an elementary campus of heavily attended scale in Marietta, Georgia, one of the schools within Cobb County, hosting 1,021 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Cheatham Hill Elementary School sits 69% above that benchmark.

Across the 110 schools in Cobb County (105,738 students total), Cheatham Hill Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cheatham Hill Elementary School reports that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 28% Hispanic, 25% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Cobb County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cheatham Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.9%, the actual is 52.8%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cobb County indicate 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%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Cheatham Hill Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Dowell Elementary School, roughly 1.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cheatham Hill Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 1,106 students in 2018 compared to 1,021 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 46% to 39% over that span.

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