Mount Zion Elementary School

Mount Zion Elementary School is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in Carrollton, Georgia, one of the schools within Carroll County, with 640 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Mount Zion Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by Carroll County, a district that caters to 16,400 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mount Zion Elementary School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Zion Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.6%; this one delivers 43.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Carroll County indicate median household income runs about $73,714, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Carroll County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,250 students), of which Mount Zion Elementary School is one.

Mt. Zion High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Zion Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 690 students in 2018 compared to 640 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 16% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.