Hightower Trail Middle School

Located at 3905 Post Oak Tritt Rd, in Marietta, Georgia, Hightower Trail Middle School is a reasonably sized junior high that serves 944 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Cobb County. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.

Cobb County comprises 110 schools with combined enrollment of 105,738 students; Hightower Trail Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Hightower Trail Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Hightower Trail Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at Hightower Trail Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cobb County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hightower Trail Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.1%; this one delivers 72.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cobb County indicate median household income runs about $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), Hightower Trail Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pope High School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hightower Trail Middle School. On composite proficiency, Hightower Trail Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Hightower Trail Middle School's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,077 (now 944). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 6% to 10%.

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