J. Knox Elementary

J. Knox Elementary is one of the substantial elementary schools in Canton, Georgia, run under Cherokee County, with 909 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 50% larger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.

Within Cherokee County, which oversees 37 schools and 42,031 students, J. Knox Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, J. Knox Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 34% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at school resources, J. Knox Elementary shows 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cherokee County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, J. Knox Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.2%; this one delivers 54.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cherokee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $108,115 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cherokee County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students), of which J. Knox Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is iGrad Virtual Academy School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, J. Knox Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

J. Knox Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. J. Knox Elementary's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 804 (now 909). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 77% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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