Rockmart High School

Rockmart High School operates as an average-sized four-year high school in Rockmart, Georgia, operated by Polk County. Current enrollment sits at 956 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Polk County runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,745 students. Rockmart High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Rockmart High School shows that White students make up the majority at 66%. Other groups include 21% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Polk County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Rockmart High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of -9.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,515 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Rockmart High School is one of 11 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 7,745 students).

Rockmart Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Rockmart High School. On composite proficiency, Rockmart High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rockmart High School has ticked up 3%, going from 925 students in 2018 to 956 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 75% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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