Enrollment
389
Elementary
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129001974
Milford Elementary School
2390 Austell Rd SW, Marietta, GA 30008 · (678) 842-6966 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL389 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
385 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 60% larger than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Cobb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
28.6%
GA avg 40.1% . -6.9pp since 2021
Math
32.3%
GA avg 44.6% . -4.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.6% | 32.3% |
| 2023-24 | 28.6% | 38.8% |
| 2022-23 | 32.7% | 36.9% |
| 2021-22 | 35.5% | 36.8% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Milford Elementary School
Milford Elementary School's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milford Elementary School this school | 389 | 99.0% | 30.4% |
| Argyle Elementary School Smyrna | 333 | 99.1% | 26.1% |
| Vickery Mill Elementary Roswell | 407 | 100.0% | 37.4% |
| Park Street Elementary School Marietta | 476 | 92.4% | 29.4% |
| Judia Jackson Harris Elementary Athens | 392 | 100.0% | 29.6% |
| Hollydale Elementary School Marietta | 526 | 100.0% | 26.3% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Milford Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #791 of 1,208 | #55 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #806 of 1,215 ▼ 170 | #60 of 72 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #766 of 1,215 ▲ 56 | #55 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.7pp | #105 of 1,183 | #8 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 389 | #1,116 of 1,324 | #68 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #26 of 1,301 | #10 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.7% | #719 of 1,301 | #64 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #469 of 1,312 | #17 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.0% | #358 of 386 | #17 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
389
+42 (+12%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 506
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 8.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 389 | 40.5 | 9.6:1 | 99% (385) |
| 2023-24 | 353 | 40.6 | 8.7:1 | 92% (326) |
| 2022-23 | 363 | 38.6 | 9.4:1 | 88% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 347 | 41 | 8.5:1 | 80% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 41 | 9.4:1 | 91% (349) |
| 2015-16 | 441 | 46 | 9.6:1 | 85% (375) |
| 2010-11 | 641 | 56 | 11.4:1 | 95% (609) |
| 2000-01 | 468 | 46 | 10.2:1 | 47% (218) |
| 1990-91 | 506 | 35 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Milford Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (385 to 389); teachers down 1% (41 to 40.5).
About Milford Elementary School
Milford Elementary School, a small elementary school, is located in Marietta, Georgia. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 389 students. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students, which makes this school 36% below average.
Cobb County (110 schools, 105,738 students) runs Milford Elementary School.
Of every 100 students at Milford Elementary School, about 62 are Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 30% Black, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Cobb County, the Hispanic share is about 15%. The diversity index for Milford Elementary School is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Milford Elementary School totals 40.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 9.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is 13.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Milford Elementary School is about 99%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cobb County is 53%.
On BeatsExpectations, Milford Elementary School is 4.2 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Georgia schools.
The school is in Cobb County, where the median household earns about $102,738 a year, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Cobb County, 129 public schools serve about 116,609 students.
Milford Elementary School's nearest public school is Osborne High School (about 0.7 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Milford Elementary School. Milford Elementary School places 3rd of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Milford Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment rose 12% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.6:1) than in 2020-21 (8.5:1).
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Cobb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
775,208
Census ACS
Median income
$102,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
116,609 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cobb County
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 3,085 students
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Pebblebrook High SchoolHigh · 2,574 students
- North Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,463 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
Other schools in Marietta
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Marietta High SchoolHigh · 2,526 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
- Lassiter High SchoolHigh · 2,005 students
- Pope High SchoolHigh · 1,793 students
Other Milford Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Milford Elementary. Milford Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- MILFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMILFORD, NE · 430 students
- Milford Elementary SchoolMilford, IN · 262 students
- Milford ElemMilford, KS · 86 students
Nearby schools
- Osborne High School0.7 mi · 2,790
- Birney Elementary School1.1 mi · 725
- LaBelle Elementary School1.3 mi · 339
- Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center1.4 mi · 18
- Dunleith Elementary School1.9 mi · 554
- Norton Park Elementary School1.9 mi · 643
Frequently asked questions
About Milford Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Milford Elementary School?
Milford Elementary School enrolls approximately 389 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Milford Elementary School serve?
Milford Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Milford Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Milford Elementary School is approximately 9.6:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Milford Elementary School?
At Milford Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 62% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Milford Elementary School in?
Milford Elementary School is part of Cobb County.
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