Pearson Middle School

Pearson Middle School, a medium-sized intermediate school in Marietta, Georgia, part of Cobb County, serves 806 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Pearson Middle School is one of 110 schools operated by Cobb County, a district that caters to 105,738 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Pearson Middle School shows that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 12% Black, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, On paper, Pearson Middle School has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Pearson Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Pearson Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Cobb County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pearson Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 22.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cobb County put median household income runs about $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), Pearson Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fair Oaks Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pearson Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pearson Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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