Sharp Creek Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Carrollton, Georgia, Sharp Creek Elementary School enrolls 547 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Carroll County.

Carroll County comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 16,400 students; Sharp Creek Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sharp Creek Elementary School records that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Carroll County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Carroll County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sharp Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.0%; this one delivers 31.8%.

In the broader community, Carroll County reports that median household earnings sit near $73,714, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sharp Creek Elementary School is one of 28 public schools in Carroll County (combined enrollment of about 22,250 students).

Sand Hill Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sharp Creek Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sharp Creek Elementary School has shrank 7%, going from 589 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 56% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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