Silver City Elementary School

Silver City Elementary School is one of the roomy primary schools in Cumming, Georgia, one of the schools within Forsyth County, with 1,142 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 89% bigger than typical.

Forsyth County comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 54,864 students; Silver City Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Silver City Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest reads as 13% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Forsyth County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Silver City Elementary School has 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 25% of students at Silver City Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Silver City Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.2%, the actual is 53.9%, a residual of -10.3 points.

In the broader community, Forsyth County reports that the typical household earns roughly $143,784 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Forsyth County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,864 students), Silver City Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dawson County Middle School, around 2.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silver City Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Silver City Elementary School has contracted 15%, going from 1,350 students in 2018 to 1,142 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 78% to 64% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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