Clayton Elementary School

Clayton Elementary School is a K-5 school of compact scale in Canton, Georgia, run under Cherokee County, educateing 290 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 52% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Cherokee County runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 42,031 students. Clayton Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clayton Elementary School logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Clayton Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Clayton Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clayton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cherokee County put median household earnings sit near $108,115, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Clayton Elementary School is one of 38 public schools in Cherokee County (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students).

The closest other public school is R. M. Moore Elementary School, roughly 2.3 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clayton Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clayton Elementary School has ticked up 27%, going from 229 students in 2018 to 290 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 81% over that span.

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