Nicholson Elementary School

Nicholson Elementary School is one of the tight-knit elementary-level communitys in Marietta, Georgia, run under Cobb County, with 413 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Nicholson Elementary School sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Nicholson Elementary School is one of 110 schools operated by Cobb County, a district that hosts 105,738 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Nicholson Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Cobb County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cobb County (around 53%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nicholson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cobb County indicate 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%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Nicholson Elementary School is one.

McCleskey Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nicholson Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nicholson Elementary School has contracted 21%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 19% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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