Public school / High
Cherokee High School
Canton, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130111000432
- District
- Cherokee County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cherokee High School is a public high school in Canton, Georgia, run by Cherokee County. It enrols 2,937 students — the 343rd largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
2,937
Teachers
192.0
Students per teacher
15.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
38.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Cherokee County
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Cherokee High School2,937 students
- 2Etowah High School2,441 students
- 3Creekview High School2,126 students
- 4Sequoyah High School2,083 students
- 5Woodstock High School2,044 students
- 6River Ridge High School1,914 students
- 7E. T. Booth Middle School1,654 students
- 8Teasley Middle School1,606 students
- Enrollment+345.0%
- Teachers+317.4%
- Students per teacher+7.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−44.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory