Sprayberry High School

Sprayberry High School operates as a sizable high school in Marietta, Georgia, part of Cobb County. Current enrollment sits at 1,769 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 58% larger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Within Cobb County, which oversees 110 schools and 105,738 students, Sprayberry High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Sprayberry High School shows that 30% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 29% Black, 28% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Cobb County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sprayberry High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cobb County indicate median household earnings sit near $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sprayberry High School is one of 129 public schools in Cobb County (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students).

Nearest neighbor: Addison Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sprayberry High School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sprayberry High School has increased 4%, going from 1,705 students in 2018 to 1,769 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 19% to 28% over that span.

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