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Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129002109
Nicholson Elementary School
1599 Shallowford Rd, Marietta, GA 30066 · (770) 928-5573 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
184 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 | 14 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
66%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
Nicholson Elementary School→McCleskey Middle School
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
48.3%
GA avg 40.1% . -10.7pp since 2021
Math
47.3%
GA avg 44.6% . -3.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 11 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.3% | 47.3% |
| 2023-24 | 59.9% | 42.9% |
| 2022-23 | 54.3% | 45.9% |
| 2021-22 | 59.0% | 50.5% |
% 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
51.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Nicholson Elementary School
Nicholson Elementary School's state test result (51.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholson Elementary School this school | 413 | 44.6% | 51.9% |
| Mary Lee Clark Elementary School Saint Marys | 480 | 45.4% | 65.4% |
| Keheley Elementary School Marietta | 393 | 37.2% | 48.3% |
| Johnston Elementary School Woodstock | 543 | 44.0% | 52.0% |
| Hillside Elementary School Roswell | 497 | 39.6% | 56.4% |
| Laurel Ridge Elementary School Decatur | 440 | 39.5% | 55.2% |
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 Nicholson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #313 of 1,208 | #28 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #462 of 1,215 ▲ 80 | #34 of 72 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #297 of 1,215 ▼ 122 | #28 of 72 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.9pp | #74 of 1,183 | #4 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #1,067 of 1,324 | #65 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #87 of 1,301 | #19 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #271 of 1,301 | #27 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.6% | #1,084 of 1,312 | #48 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.7% | #224 of 854 | #15 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
413
-22 (-5%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 559
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 413 | 38.5 | 10.7:1 | 45% (184) |
| 2023-24 | 414 | 40.4 | 10.3:1 | 48% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 41.1 | 9.9:1 | 36% (145) |
| 2020-21 | 435 | 42 | 10.4:1 | 32% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 521 | 39 | 13.4:1 | 38% (197) |
| 2015-16 | 529 | 39 | 13.6:1 | 43% (229) |
| 2010-11 | 500 | 42 | 11.9:1 | 40% (202) |
| 2000-01 | 627 | 45 | 13.9:1 | 15% (94) |
| 1990-91 | 559 | 36 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nicholson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (521 to 413); teachers down 1% (39 to 38.5).
About Nicholson Elementary School
Nicholson Elementary School is a small elementary school in Marietta, Georgia, administered by Cobb County. The school counts 413 students across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 32% smaller than the 605 average for elementary schools in Georgia.
Cobb County has 110 schools and 105,738 students, and Nicholson Elementary School is one of those schools.
A majority of students at Nicholson Elementary School, 51%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, and 10% multiracial. That is close to the 49% White share among all Cobb County residents. Nicholson Elementary School has a diversity index of 66%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Nicholson Elementary School operates with 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 10.7:1. That ratio is under the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Nicholson Elementary School reports 45% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 53% average for public schools in Cobb County is 8 points.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Nicholson Elementary School would be expected to post about 54.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 51.9%.
Among Cobb County residents, median household income is about $102,738, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 51%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Nicholson Elementary School is one of 129 public schools in Cobb County, which together enroll about 116,609 students.
Of nearby public schools, McCleskey Middle School is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 61.6% proficiency; Nicholson Elementary School posts 51.9%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 435 to 413.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Nicholson Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Nicholson Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Nicholson Elementary. Nicholson Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Nicholson Elementary SchoolMontgomery, IL · 337 students
- Nicholson ElementaryPicayune, MS · 324 students
Nearby schools
- McCleskey Middle School0.3 mi · 540
- Keheley Elementary School0.8 mi · 393
- Kell High School1.0 mi · 1,587
- Rocky Mount Elementary School1.5 mi · 576
- Blackwell Elementary School1.6 mi · 580
- Lassiter High School1.9 mi · 2,005
Frequently asked questions
About Nicholson Elementary SchoolHow large is Nicholson Elementary School?
Nicholson Elementary School enrolls approximately 413 students in grades PK-05.
Is Nicholson Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Nicholson Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Nicholson Elementary School?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at Nicholson Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nicholson Elementary School?
At Nicholson Elementary School, the student body is approximately 51% White, 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Nicholson Elementary School public or private?
Nicholson Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cobb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.