Hayes Elementary School

Hayes Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school in Kennesaw, Georgia, one of the schools within Cobb County. The school hosts 802 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Hayes Elementary School logs that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Roughly 57% of students at Hayes Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hayes Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.6%; this one delivers 43.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cobb County) records that the typical household earns roughly $102,738 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Hayes Elementary School is one.

Pine Mountain Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hayes Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hayes Elementary School has fell 8%, going from 871 students in 2018 to 802 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 24% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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