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Enrollment
750
Elementary
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129002154
Ford Elementary School
1345 Mars Hill Rd NW, Acworth, GA 30101 · (678) 594-8092 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL750 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
127 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 74%
Community
6
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 | 21 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 131 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 142 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (142).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Ford Elementary School→Durham Middle School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Cobb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
59.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -4.4pp since 2021
Math
62.9%
GA avg 44.6% . -3.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 60 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 down about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.7% | 62.9% |
| 2023-24 | 62.6% | 70.3% |
| 2022-23 | 60.6% | 63.4% |
| 2021-22 | 64.1% | 66.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 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 Ford Elementary School
Ford Elementary School's state test result (64.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Elementary School this school | 750 | 16.9% | 64.0% |
| Ashford Park Elementary School Atlanta | 757 | 14.8% | 71.8% |
| Heards Ferry Elementary School Atlanta | 699 | 10.9% | 84.5% |
| Due West Elementary School Marietta | 626 | 16.3% | 70.9% |
| Virginia-Highland Elementary School Atlanta | 649 | 15.4% | 79.3% |
| Parkway Elementary School Evans | 795 | 19.6% | 75.3% |
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 Ford Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #155 of 1,208 | #18 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #214 of 1,215 ▼ 84 | #20 of 72 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.7% | #142 of 1,215 ▲ 9 | #17 of 72 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.7pp | #189 of 1,183 | #22 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 750 | #305 of 1,324 | #26 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #606 of 1,301 | #62 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.1% | #678 of 1,301 | #60 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.9% | #1,248 of 1,312 | #66 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #574 of 854 | #41 of 57 |
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
750
-45 (-6%) vs 2020
-6% since 2000-01, when it was 802
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 750 | 56.6 | 13.3:1 | 17% (127) |
| 2023-24 | 747 | 56.1 | 13.3:1 | 16% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 757 | 57.6 | 13.1:1 | 8% (63) |
| 2020-21 | 795 | 62 | 12.8:1 | 8% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 824 | 55.3 | 14.9:1 | 5% (42) |
| 2015-16 | 724 | 52 | 13.9:1 | 7% (50) |
| 2010-11 | 814 | 55 | 14.8:1 | 8% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 802 | 48 | 16.7:1 | 1% (10) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ford Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (824 to 750); teachers up 2% (55.3 to 56.6).
About Ford Elementary School
Federal records list Ford Elementary School as an elementary school in Acworth, Georgia. It teaches 750 students in pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Georgia enroll about 605 students on average.
In Cobb County, 110 schools enroll a combined 105,738 students.
Federal enrollment data show Ford Elementary School is 65% White. The next largest groups are 16% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. The school's White share is 16 points above the 49% share among Cobb County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 54%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.3:1. The school has 56.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 13.3:1. Federal data show 17% of students (127) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Cobb County is 53%.
The model predicts 68.6% for a school in Georgia with Ford Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Ford Elementary School posts 64.0%.
Cobb County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $102,738 a year, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Ford Elementary School shares Cobb County with 128 other public schools.
Vaughan Elementary School is the nearest public school to Ford Elementary School, about 1.8 miles away. Within five miles of Ford Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Ford Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 6% across 4 years, from 795 in 2020-21 to 750 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Ford Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Cobb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
775,208
Census ACS
Median income
$102,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
116,609 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cobb County
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 3,085 students
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Pebblebrook High SchoolHigh · 2,574 students
- North Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,463 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
Other schools in Acworth
- Allatoona High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Clark Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,108 students
- Durham Middle SchoolMiddle · 984 students
- Crossroads Middle SchoolMiddle · 908 students
- Pitner Elementary SchoolElementary · 802 students
- Barber Middle SchoolMiddle · 790 students
Other Ford Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Ford Elementary. Ford Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Ford Elementary SchoolSPRING, TX · 857 students
- Ford ElementaryCENTENNIAL, CO · 653 students
- Ford ElementaryLaurens, SC · 423 students
- Ford ElementaryRichmond, CA · 371 students
- Ford ElementaryTUCSON, AZ · 182 students
Nearby schools
- Vaughan Elementary School1.8 mi · 600
- Lost Mountain Middle School2.1 mi · 979
- Harrison High School2.5 mi · 2,224
- Frey Elementary School2.8 mi · 691
- Durham Middle School3.0 mi · 984
- Roland W. Russom Elementary3.0 mi · 982
Frequently asked questions
About Ford Elementary SchoolHow large is Ford Elementary School?
Ford Elementary School enrolls approximately 750 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Ford Elementary School serve?
Ford Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Ford Elementary School have?
Ford Elementary School employs 57 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Ford Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ford Elementary School are roughly 65% White, 7% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Ford Elementary School?
Ford Elementary School is overseen by Cobb County in Cobb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.