Powers Ferry Elementary School

Powers Ferry Elementary School is one of the compact elementary campuss in Marietta, Georgia, one of the schools within Cobb County, with 475 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so Powers Ferry Elementary School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 110 schools in Cobb County (105,738 students total), Powers Ferry Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Powers Ferry Elementary School records that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 27% Black, 12% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Cobb County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Powers Ferry Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cobb County (around 53%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Powers Ferry Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.7%, the actual is 27.5%, a residual of -3.2 points.

Across the wider county, Cobb County reports that median household earnings sit near $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Powers Ferry Elementary School is one of 129 public schools in Cobb County (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students).

Sedalia Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Powers Ferry Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Powers Ferry Elementary School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Powers Ferry Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 464 students in 2018 to 475 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 41% to 57%.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.