Free Home Elementary School

Set in Canton, Georgia, Free Home Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary campus, one of the schools within Cherokee County. It instructs 280 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

Cherokee County runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 42,031 students. Free Home Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Free Home Elementary School shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 14% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Free Home Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.8%.

In the area at large, Cherokee County reports that median household income runs about $108,115, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cherokee County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students), of which Free Home Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Creekland Middle School, around 2.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Free Home Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Free Home Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 323 students in 2018 compared to 280 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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