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Green Acres Elementary School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Green Acres Elementary School
Green Acres Elementary School operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Smyrna, Georgia, one of the schools within Cobb County. Current enrollment sits at 584 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Cobb County runs 110 schools in total, collectively educating 105,738 students. Green Acres Elementary School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Green Acres Elementary School records that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Green Acres Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Cobb County's rate of about 53%.
With demographic context factored in, Green Acres Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 19.0%, a residual of -9.6 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cobb County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $102,738 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Green Acres Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: International Academy of Smyrna, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Green Acres Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.
Green Acres Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 708 students in 2018 compared to 584 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 17% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.
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