South Forsyth High School

South Forsyth High School is a secondary school of heavily attended scale in Cumming, Georgia, part of Forsyth County, educateing 2,634 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 135% bigger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Forsyth County comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 54,864 students; South Forsyth High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, South Forsyth High School logs that the largest single group is Asian at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, South Forsyth High School has 139 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Forsyth County (around 21%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, South Forsyth High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.0%.

Across the wider county, Forsyth County reports that median household income runs about $143,784, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. South Forsyth High School is one of 42 public schools in Forsyth County (combined enrollment of about 54,864 students).

Nearest neighbor: Shiloh Point Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Forsyth High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 76.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. South Forsyth High School's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 3,442 (now 2,634). Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 24% to 49%.

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