Sawnee Elementary School
Cumming, GA · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Sawnee Elementary School is a elementary school in Cumming, GA with 1,720 students enrolled and a 61% proficiency rate. Part of Forsyth County. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Sawnee Elementary School is a elementary school located in Cumming, Georgia. The school serves 1,720 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.6:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 61% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
16% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Sawnee Elementary School is part of the Forsyth County in Georgia.
How This School Compares
Sawnee Elementary School has 1,720 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Forsyth County (1,288 students). Its 61% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points below the district average of 66%. Compared to the Georgia state average of 44%, the school performs 17 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sawnee Elementary School has 1,720 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.6:1.
According to EDFacts data, 61% of students at Sawnee Elementary School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Sawnee Elementary School is part of the Forsyth County in Cumming, Georgia. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.