Devereux Ackerman Academy

Set in Kennesaw, Georgia, Devereux Ackerman Academy is a minimally staffed unified-grade school, operated by Cobb County. It hosts 54 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 93% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 738 students.

Across the 110 schools in Cobb County (105,738 students total), Devereux Ackerman Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Devereux Ackerman Academy logs that Black students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 30% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Cobb County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Devereux Ackerman Academy lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 4.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Devereux Ackerman Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Cobb County's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Devereux Ackerman Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.6%; actual is 4.0%, a gap of -24.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cobb County) reports that median household earnings sit near $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Devereux Ackerman Academy is one.

Kennesaw Mountain High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Devereux Ackerman Academy. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Devereux Ackerman Academy ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Devereux Ackerman Academy's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 77 (now 54). Black enrollment moved from 68% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 6.4:1 in 2018 to 4.0:1 in 2025.

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