Cogburn Woods Elementary School

Cogburn Woods Elementary School operates as a medium-sized primary school in Alpharetta, Georgia, part of Fulton County. Current enrollment sits at 786 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 30% bigger than typical.

Across the 107 schools in Fulton County (87,563 students total), Cogburn Woods Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cogburn Woods Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 12% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Cogburn Woods Elementary School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at Cogburn Woods Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cogburn Woods Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.1%, the actual is 74.3%, a residual of +4.2 points.

Around the school, Fulton County reports that median household income runs about $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Cogburn Woods Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hopewell Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cogburn Woods Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 70.2%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Cogburn Woods Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 879 (now 786). Over the same period, the White share fell from 49% to 41%.

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