King Springs Elementary School

King Springs Elementary School is a well-populated K-5 school in Smyrna, Georgia, part of Cobb County. The school works with 1,101 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so King Springs Elementary School sits 82% bigger than that benchmark.

Cobb County runs 110 schools in total, collectively educating 105,738 students. King Springs Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, King Springs Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 29% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Cobb County's rate of about 53%.

With demographic context factored in, King Springs Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.9%; this one delivers 63.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cobb County) records that median household income runs about $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which King Springs Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Griffin Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, King Springs Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

King Springs Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 6%: 1,043 students in 2018 compared to 1,101 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.