Fair Oaks Elementary School

Fair Oaks Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school in Marietta, Georgia, run under Cobb County. The school serves 703 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Cobb County comprises 110 schools with combined enrollment of 105,738 students; Fair Oaks Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Fair Oaks Elementary School lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 9% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Fair Oaks Elementary School has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting Fair Oaks Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Fair Oaks Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cobb County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fair Oaks Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 30.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cobb County) shows that median household income runs about $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Fair Oaks Elementary School is one of 129 public schools in Cobb County (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pearson Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fair Oaks Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fair Oaks Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 911 students in 2018 compared to 703 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 81% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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