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Canton, Georgia - 1 schools
An equity score of 44/100 ranks State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy #132 of 216 districts in Georgia (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,612 per pupil, State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy ranks #151 of 219 Georgia districts by per-pupil spending (Georgia districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy operates 1 public schools serving 622 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Georgia. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Cherokee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,612 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 219 Georgia districts by per-pupil spending. See how Georgia compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 11.5% local, 76.9% state, and 11.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 44/100, ranked #132 of 216 in Georgia against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 622:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 35.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Cherokee Charter Academy, enrolling 622 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Cherokee Charter Academy accounts for 100.0% of all State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy a distant remainder — means State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy student-counselor ratio is 622:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 35.4% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to State Charter Schools- Cherokee Charter Academy's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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