South Forsyth High School
Cumming, GA · High School · Grades 9-12
South Forsyth High School is a high school in Cumming, GA with 2,443 students enrolled and a 63% proficiency rate. Part of Forsyth County. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
South Forsyth High School is a high school located in Cumming, Georgia. The school serves 2,443 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 19.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 63% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 90% graduation rate.
5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
South Forsyth High School is part of the Forsyth County in Georgia.
How This School Compares
South Forsyth High School has 2,443 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Forsyth County (1,288 students). Its 63% proficiency rate is 2 percentage points below the district average of 66%. Compared to the Georgia state average of 44%, the school performs 19 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
South Forsyth High School has 2,443 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 19.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 63% of students at South Forsyth High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
South Forsyth High School has a 90% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
South Forsyth High 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.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.