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Enrollment
802
Elementary
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129000240
Hayes Elementary School
1501 Kennesaw Due West Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30152 · (678) 594-8127 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL802 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of Georgia public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
461 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 | 11 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 140 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 146 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (137).
Student demographics
72%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
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
37.1%
GA avg 40.1% . -4.3pp since 2021
Math
45.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +2.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 up about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.1% | 45.1% |
| 2023-24 | 44.1% | 43.9% |
| 2022-23 | 41.1% | 41.8% |
| 2021-22 | 41.4% | 42.2% |
% 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
43.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Hayes Elementary School
Hayes Elementary School's state test result (43.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayes Elementary School this school | 802 | 57.5% | 43.0% |
| Mulberry Elementary School Auburn | 763 | 51.1% | 60.7% |
| Pitner Elementary School Acworth | 802 | 56.5% | 41.5% |
| Bells Ferry Elementary School Marietta | 704 | 61.5% | 42.3% |
| High Point Elementary School Atlanta | 684 | 56.9% | 46.8% |
| Welch Elementary School Newnan | 1,012 | 58.7% | 43.4% |
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 Hayes Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #488 of 1,208 | #38 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #518 of 1,215 ▲ 1 | #38 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.1% | #534 of 1,215 ▼ 102 | #44 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.7pp | #368 of 1,183 | #33 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 802 | #230 of 1,324 | #20 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #404 of 1,301 | #49 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.9% | #80 of 1,301 | #12 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.5% | #969 of 1,312 | #37 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.9% | #603 of 854 | #43 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
802
-89 (-10%) vs 2020
-28% since 2000-01, when it was 1,116
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 802 | 64 | 12.5:1 | 57% (461) |
| 2023-24 | 801 | 63.5 | 12.6:1 | 61% (492) |
| 2022-23 | 841 | 63.3 | 13.3:1 | 51% (432) |
| 2020-21 | 891 | 68 | 13.1:1 | 47% (418) |
| 2017-18 | 871 | 57.5 | 15.2:1 | 51% (443) |
| 2015-16 | 881 | 65 | 13.6:1 | 59% (523) |
| 2010-11 | 1,055 | 76 | 13.9:1 | 58% (608) |
| 2000-01 | 1,116 | 67 | 16.7:1 | 19% (216) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hayes Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (871 to 802); teachers up 11% (57.5 to 64).
About Hayes Elementary School
This page covers Hayes Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school in Kennesaw, Georgia. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 802 students enrolled. That is 33% larger than the average of about 605 students for elementary schools in Georgia.
Cobb County runs 110 schools with a combined 105,738 students. Hayes Elementary School is one of them.
The student body at Hayes Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 40%. Other groups include 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 27% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 72, compared with 70 nationally.
Hayes Elementary School has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1. The school's 12.5:1 compares with an average of 13.3:1 for elementary schools in Georgia. The school has 57% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Hayes Elementary School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 41% of Georgia public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 43.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 47.6%.
Census data for Cobb County show the median household earns about $102,738 a year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting Hayes Elementary School, Cobb County has 129 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Pine Mountain Middle School, is about 0.2 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Hayes Elementary School ranks 6th in a group of 7 nearby schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment decreased by 10% across 4 years, from 891 in 2020-21 to 802 in 2024-25.
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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 Kennesaw
- North Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,463 students
- Harrison High SchoolHigh · 2,224 students
- Kennesaw Mountain High SchoolHigh · 1,695 students
- McClure Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,030 students
- Lost Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 979 students
- Palmer Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
Other Hayes Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 7 states are named Hayes Elementary. Hayes Elementary School is the largest of the 9.
- Hayes ElementarySan Jose, CA · 470 students
- Hayes ElementaryFRIDLEY, MN · 432 students
- Hayes Elementary SchoolWESTLAND, MI · 416 students
- Hayes Elementary SchoolAda, OK · 414 students
- Hayes Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 400 students
Nearby schools
- Pine Mountain Middle School0.2 mi · 506
- Kennesaw Mountain High School0.7 mi · 1,695
- Devereux Ackerman Academy1.3 mi · 54
- Bullard Elementary School1.7 mi · 799
- McClure Middle School1.7 mi · 1,030
- Due West Elementary School2.5 mi · 626
Frequently asked questions
About Hayes Elementary SchoolHow large is Hayes Elementary School?
Hayes Elementary School enrolls approximately 802 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Hayes Elementary School serve?
Hayes Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Hayes Elementary School?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at Hayes Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Hayes Elementary School?
Student demographics at Hayes Elementary School are roughly 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 40% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Hayes Elementary School in?
Hayes Elementary School is part of Cobb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.