NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Flowery Branch, GA

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9 public K-12 schools in Flowery Branch from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
7,871
Students
39/100
Avg Resource Index
16.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Flowery Branch has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Flowery Branch sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Flowery Branch's 9 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 13-point gap between Cherokee Bluff Middle and Flowery Branch High shows the range hidden by Flowery Branch's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 27%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
41st percentile
Teacher staffing
36th percentile

Flowery Branch High accounts for 16.6% of all Flowery Branch public-school enrollment

That concentration means Flowery Branch-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Flowery Branch school enrollment varies 2.1× across entities

Flowery Branch school enrollment ranges from 628 students (lowest) to 1,304 students (highest), a spread of 676 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Flowery Branch operates one school district — a single-district system

Flowery Branch's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Flowery Branch student-teacher ratio is 16.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Flowery Branch is typically wider than the Flowery Branch-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Cherokee Bluff Middle 44
2. World Language Academy 44
3. Spout Springs Elementary School 42
4. Martin Elementary School 41
5. C. W. Davis Middle School 40
6. Chestnut Mountain Elementary School 38
7. Flowery Branch Elementary School 38
8. Cherokee Bluff High School 33
9. Flowery Branch High 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Flowery Branch

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Flowery Branch Elementary School 66.7/100
  2. 2 Martin Elementary School 66.3/100
  3. 3 C. W. Davis Middle School 60.1/100
  4. 4 Flowery Branch High 59.6/100
  5. 5 Chestnut Mountain Elementary School 55.8/100

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Which Flowery Branch school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cherokee Bluff Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Flowery Branch schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Flowery Branch, GA? ▼

Flowery Branch has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,871 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.