LaBelle Elementary School

LaBelle Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment primary school in Marietta, Georgia, part of Cobb County. Current enrollment sits at 339 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 605.

Across the 110 schools in Cobb County (105,738 students total), LaBelle Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, LaBelle Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LaBelle Elementary School lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.3:1, putting LaBelle Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at LaBelle Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cobb County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LaBelle Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 25.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Cobb County shows median household income runs about $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), LaBelle Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Osborne High School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LaBelle Elementary School. On composite proficiency, LaBelle Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 339 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 23% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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