Haw Creek Elementary

Haw Creek Elementary operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in Cumming, Georgia, run under Forsyth County. Current enrollment sits at 926 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Haw Creek Elementary sits 53% larger than that benchmark.

Haw Creek Elementary is one of 42 schools operated by Forsyth County, a district that educates 54,864 students overall.

Demographically, Haw Creek Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 39% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Forsyth County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 12% of students at Haw Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Forsyth County (around 21%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Haw Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Forsyth County put median household earnings sit near $143,784, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Haw Creek Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Forsyth County (combined enrollment of about 54,864 students).

The closest other public school is Lakeside Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Haw Creek Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.7%.

Haw Creek Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Haw Creek Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,092 (now 926). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 20% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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