Holly Springs Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Canton, Georgia, Holly Springs Elementary School enrolls 831 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Cherokee County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Holly Springs Elementary School sits 37% above that benchmark.

Cherokee County runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 42,031 students. Holly Springs Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Holly Springs Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at school resources, Holly Springs Elementary School shows 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holly Springs Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 50.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cherokee County) records that the typical household earns roughly $108,115 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Cherokee County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students), of which Holly Springs Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Indian Knoll Elementary, around 2.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Holly Springs Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Holly Springs Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Holly Springs Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 759 (now 831). White enrollment moved from 70% to 63% across the same window.

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