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Enrollment
898
Elementary
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129000507
Mount Bethel Elementary School
1210 Johnson Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30068 · (770) 578-7248 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL898 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% of Georgia public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
64 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 74%
Community
6
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 | 15 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 113 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 149 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 154 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 181 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 161 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (113) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (161).
Student demographics
52%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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
78.8%
GA avg 40.1% . -5.5pp since 2021
Math
84.2%
GA avg 44.6% . -3.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.8% | 84.2% |
| 2023-24 | 84.3% | 88.5% |
| 2022-23 | 83.4% | 87.5% |
| 2021-22 | 84.3% | 87.3% |
% 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
83.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Mount Bethel Elementary School
Mount Bethel Elementary School's state test result (83.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bethel Elementary School this school | 898 | 7.1% | 83.0% |
| Murdock Elementary School Marietta | 847 | 11.5% | 78.7% |
| Vickery Creek Elementary School Cumming | 982 | 6.9% | 67.8% |
| Sope Creek Elementary School Marietta | 1,104 | 9.1% | 78.4% |
| Mountain View Elementary School Marietta | 837 | 18.6% | 79.0% |
| East Side Elementary School Marietta | 1,072 | 8.7% | 77.4% |
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 Mount Bethel Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #15 of 1,208 | #4 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.2% | #22 of 1,215 ▼ 10 | #3 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #19 of 1,215 ▼ 10 | #5 of 72 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.3pp | #164 of 1,183 | #18 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 898 | #139 of 1,324 | #10 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #691 of 1,301 | #66 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #738 of 1,301 | #66 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.1% | #1,301 of 1,312 | #78 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.6% | #242 of 854 | #18 of 57 |
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
898
-64 (-7%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 743
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 898 | 66.2 | 13.6:1 | 7% (64) |
| 2023-24 | 919 | 66.6 | 13.8:1 | 8% (72) |
| 2022-23 | 947 | 68.9 | 13.7:1 | 3% (32) |
| 2020-21 | 962 | 74 | 13.0:1 | 2% (16) |
| 2017-18 | 1,117 | 69.4 | 16.1:1 | 1% (12) |
| 2015-16 | 1,110 | 69 | 16.1:1 | 3% (34) |
| 2010-11 | 1,002 | 68 | 14.7:1 | 2% (25) |
| 2000-01 | 1,130 | 66 | 17.1:1 | 0% (3) |
| 1990-91 | 743 | 42 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Bethel Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (1,117 to 898); teachers down 5% (69.4 to 66.2).
About Mount Bethel Elementary School
Mount Bethel Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Marietta, Georgia, one of the schools in Cobb County. Enrollment is 898 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5. Against the 605-student average for elementary schools in Georgia, enrollment here is 48% higher.
Cobb County runs 110 schools with a combined 105,738 students. Mount Bethel Elementary School is one of them.
At 66%, White students outnumber all other groups at Mount Bethel Elementary School combined. It is also 19% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Cobb County's residents are about 49% White, 17 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, Mount Bethel Elementary School comes in at 52%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 13.6:1, with 66.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. Elementary schools in Georgia have a similar average ratio of 13.3:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 7%. The average for public schools in Cobb County is 53%.
The allk12 Grade for Mount Bethel Elementary School is A. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 87% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The model predicts 73.7% for a school in Georgia with Mount Bethel Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Mount Bethel Elementary School posts 83.0%.
Cobb County census figures show that median household income is about $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Mount Bethel Elementary School is among the 129 public schools in Cobb County.
Dickerson Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Mount Bethel Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Mount Bethel Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 898, 7% below the 962 of 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Mount Bethel Elementary School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
Nearby schools
- Dickerson Middle School0.7 mi · 1,225
- East Side Elementary School1.3 mi · 1,072
- Timber Ridge Elementary School1.3 mi · 529
- Walton High School1.5 mi · 2,705
- Dodgen Middle School1.7 mi · 1,178
- Tritt Elementary School2.6 mi · 804
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Bethel Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mount Bethel Elementary School?
Mount Bethel Elementary School enrolls approximately 898 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Mount Bethel Elementary School serve?
Mount Bethel Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mount Bethel Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mount Bethel Elementary School is approximately 13.6:1 (66 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Mount Bethel Elementary School?
Mount Bethel Elementary School reports a student body of 66% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black, 19% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Mount Bethel Elementary School in?
Mount Bethel Elementary School is part of Cobb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.