Marietta High School

Marietta High School is a senior high of sizable scale in Marietta, Georgia, one of the schools within Marietta City, works with 2,526 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 126% bigger than the state mean of about 1,120.

Marietta City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,664 students. Marietta High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Marietta High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Black, 21% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 176 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Marietta High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Marietta High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Around the school, Cobb County reports that median household earnings sit near $102,738, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), Marietta High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is A.L. Burruss Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Marietta High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Marietta High School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 2,489 (now 2,526). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 43% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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