Enrollment
287
Elementary
DISTRICT 430 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHITFIELD COUNTY·NCES 130570001829
Cohutta Elementary School
254 Wolfe St, Cohutta, GA 30710 · (706) 694-8812 · Whitfield County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL287 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
255 students
DISTRICT 93% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
49.6%
GA avg 40.1% . +6.6pp since 2021
Math
63.4%
GA avg 44.6% . +18.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 19 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.6% | 63.4% |
| 2023-24 | 56.3% | 52.4% |
| 2022-23 | 42.3% | 49.3% |
| 2021-22 | 43.0% | 44.5% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cohutta Elementary School
Cohutta Elementary School's state test result (53.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohutta Elementary School this school | 287 | 88.9% | 53.4% |
| Tunnel Hill Elementary School Tunnel Hill | 297 | 82.2% | 54.5% |
| Lyerly Elementary School Lyerly | 335 | 86.6% | 31.2% |
| Hazel Grove Elementary School Mount Airy | 272 | 100.0% | 55.5% |
| Cloud Springs Elementary School Rossville | 346 | 98.8% | 38.7% |
| Jack P Nix Elementary School Cleveland | 409 | 89.7% | 51.0% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cohutta Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Whitfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #287 of 1,208 | #3 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.4% | #206 of 1,215 ▲ 171 | #1 of 19 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #279 of 1,215 ▼ 53 | #3 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.7pp | #67 of 1,183 | #3 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 287 | #1,252 of 1,324 | #19 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #407 of 1,301 | #13 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #991 of 1,301 | #15 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.9% | #595 of 1,312 | #11 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #837 of 854 | #16 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
287
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 329
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 287 | 22.9 | 12.5:1 | 89% (255) |
| 2023-24 | 294 | 21.9 | 13.4:1 | 69% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 24 | 13.5:1 | 58% (188) |
| 2020-21 | 289 | 20 | 14.4:1 | 54% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 289 | 29 | 10.0:1 | 60% (172) |
| 2015-16 | 304 | 21 | 14.5:1 | 65% (199) |
| 2010-11 | 323 | 23 | 14.0:1 | 68% (221) |
| 2000-01 | 364 | 21 | 17.3:1 | 43% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 329 | 20 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cohutta Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (289 to 287); teachers down 21% (29 to 22.9).
About Cohutta Elementary School
Cohutta Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Georgia, with an address in Cohutta. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 287 students. Elementary schools in Georgia have about 605 students on average; enrollment here is 53% lower.
Whitfield County serves 11,942 students across 22 schools.
White students are 78% of those enrolled at Cohutta Elementary School. The next largest groups are 16% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. In Whitfield County overall, about 65% of residents are White. A diversity index of 37% means there is a 37% chance two randomly chosen students at Cohutta Elementary School are from different groups.
A staff of 22.9 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 12.5:1. Across elementary schools in Georgia, the average ratio is 13.3:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 89%.
Cohutta Elementary School is a top-10% school in Georgia on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.4% with an actual 53.4%.
The school is in Whitfield County, where median household income comes to about $67,070, roughly 20% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Whitfield County counts 33 public schools with about 19,570 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Varnell Elementary School, is about 4.5 miles. Other public schools within five miles: 2. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Cohutta Elementary School ranks 1st of 8 on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Rural: Distant by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 289 in 2020-21, 287 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 14.4:1 in 2020-21 to 12.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Whitfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
103,598
Census ACS
Median income
$67,070
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
19,570 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Whitfield County
- Southeast Whitfield County High SchoolHigh · 1,453 students
- Northwest Whitfield County High SchoolHigh · 1,098 students
- Coahulla Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- North Whitfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Eastbrook Middle SchoolMiddle · 624 students
- Eastside Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
Nearby schools
- Varnell Elementary School4.5 mi · 350
- Coahulla Creek High School4.6 mi · 1,041
- North Whitfield Middle School6.1 mi · 731
- Beaverdale Elementary School6.1 mi · 488
- New Hope Middle School6.2 mi · 454
- New Hope Elementary School6.4 mi · 511
Frequently asked questions
About Cohutta Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cohutta Elementary School?
Cohutta Elementary School enrolls approximately 287 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cohutta Elementary School serve?
Cohutta Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Cohutta Elementary School?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at Cohutta Elementary School.
How diverse is Cohutta Elementary School?
Cohutta Elementary School reports a student body of 78% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Two or more.
What district is Cohutta Elementary School in?
Cohutta Elementary School is part of Whitfield County.
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