Coal Mountain Elementary School

Coal Mountain Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Cumming, Georgia, part of Forsyth County. Current enrollment sits at 747 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Forsyth County comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 54,864 students; Coal Mountain Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Coal Mountain Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 21%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Coal Mountain Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of -10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $143,784 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Forsyth County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,864 students), of which Coal Mountain Elementary School is one.

North Forsyth High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coal Mountain Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 725 students in 2018 compared to 747 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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