Sawyer Road Elementary School

Located at 840 Sawyer Rd, in Marietta, Georgia, Sawyer Road Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that caters to 533 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Marietta City.

Within Marietta City, which oversees 13 schools and 8,664 students, Sawyer Road Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Sawyer Road Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 31% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Sawyer Road Elementary School shows 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.3:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Cobb County's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sawyer Road Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cobb County put the typical household earns roughly $102,738 per year, 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 Sawyer Road Elementary School is one.

Lockheed Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sawyer Road Elementary School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.9%.

Sawyer Road Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 30%: 758 students in 2018 compared to 533 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.