Poole's Mill Elementary

Poole's Mill Elementary is one of the expansive elementary schools in Cumming, Georgia, overseen by Forsyth County, with 1,384 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Poole's Mill Elementary sits 129% bigger than that benchmark.

Forsyth County comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 54,864 students; Poole's Mill Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Poole's Mill Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 34% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Forsyth County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Poole's Mill Elementary reports 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Poole's Mill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of -13.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $143,784 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Poole's Mill Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Forsyth County (combined enrollment of about 54,864 students).

Liberty Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Poole's Mill Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Poole's Mill Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.3%.

Poole's Mill Elementary operates from a countryside location.

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