Marietta Sixth Grade Academy

Marietta Sixth Grade Academy operates as a mid-sized middle-grades school in Marietta, Georgia, run under Marietta City. Current enrollment sits at 678 students spanning grade 6.

Marietta City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,664 students. Marietta Sixth Grade Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marietta Sixth Grade Academy logs that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 31% Black, 22% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Marietta Sixth Grade Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Marietta Sixth Grade Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cobb County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Marietta Sixth Grade Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.7%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cobb County put the typical household earns roughly $102,738 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Marietta Sixth Grade Academy is one of 129 public schools in Cobb County (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students).

Marietta Center for Advanced Academics is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marietta Sixth Grade Academy comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Marietta Sixth Grade Academy operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marietta Sixth Grade Academy has ticked down 8%, going from 736 students in 2018 to 678 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 40% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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