Pope High School

Set in Marietta, Georgia, Pope High School is a heavily attended four-year high school, part of Cobb County. It serves 1,793 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 60% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Pope High School is one of 110 schools operated by Cobb County, a district that educates 105,738 students overall.

Demographically, Pope High School logs that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Cobb County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Pope High School shows 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Cobb County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pope High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cobb County) logs that median household earnings sit near $102,738, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Pope High School is one.

The closest other public school is Hightower Trail Middle School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pope High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 75.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Pope High School's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 2,031 (now 1,793). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 77% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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