Hickory Hills Elementary, 500 Redwood Drive SW: grades K-5, 480 students, 77.6 CCRPI in the state's 2025 report. Office: 770-429-3125.

Last checked Oct. 5, 2026. Sources: Hickory Hills Elementary, Marietta City Schools, the City of Marietta’s parcel map data, the state’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.

Hickory Hills Elementary School is one of seven zoned elementary schools in Marietta City Schools, the city’s own school district. It sits on Redwood Drive in southwest Marietta, inside the city limits. In the city’s parcel data, 2,188 parcels, about 10% of those in the city, are zoned to it. It shares our Powder Springs Street area with Dunleith Elementary. The principal’s page says the school is “just over a mile from Historic Marietta Square.”

Who to call
Address 500 Redwood Drive SW, Marietta, GA 30064
Phone 770-429-3125
Grades Kindergarten to 5
District Marietta City Schools

The state’s 2025 report lists kindergarten through fifth grade. The federal directory listed pre-K through fifth grade for 2023-24. The district lists the Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center as its pre-K school.

Principal

Principal Kristen Beaudin, according to the school’s Meet the Principal page. The page says she joined Hickory Hills as principal in 2011 after 11 years in the Cobb County School District.

Enrollment and teachers

  • Federal count: 396 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about nine students per teacher.
  • State count: 480 students in the state’s 2025 School Grades report, compared with 472 in 2024 and 448 in 2023.

State report card

Georgia grades schools with the College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI), which the Georgia Department of Education calls “Georgia’s annual tool for measuring how well schools, districts, and the state are preparing students for the next educational level,” according to its accountability page. Scores run from 0 to 100. Georgia does not issue letter grades.

Report year CCRPI score
2025 77.6
2024 87.6
2023 78.7

The 2025 score breaks down into content mastery 72, progress 96.2, closing gaps 32.4 and readiness 87.1, each a component score out of 100. In reading, 39.7% of third graders and 60.7% of fifth graders scored at or above the midpoint of the state’s grade-level Lexile range.

Georgia Milestones, 2025 end-of-grade tests (share of tested students at the proficient and distinguished levels):

Subject Proficient Distinguished
English language arts 30.1% 18.3%
Math 35% 16.7%
Science (fifth grade) 32.8% 8.6%

See the full report on the state’s School Grades page for Hickory Hills Elementary or on GaDOE’s CCRPI reporting site. Both are interactive dashboards; the figures above come from the state’s downloadable data file.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Look up any address with the City of Marietta’s property search tool, which the district uses for school zones, or see the district attendance zone map (PDF). Elementary zones do not follow neighborhood lines. A Marietta mailing address outside the city is generally in the Cobb County School District.

The district’s charter system page lists one sixth grade academy, one middle school and one high school, so every Hickory Hills Elementary student goes on to the Marietta Sixth Grade Academy, then Marietta Middle and Marietta High.

Hickory Hills Elementary was not on the district’s 2026-27 list of schools accepting school choice applications, on its charter system page.

We found no rezoning approved by the Board of Education that affects the school.

Calendar and bell times

From the district’s 2026-27 calendar (PDF):

  • Oct. 12-16: elementary conference week, with dismissal at 1:15 p.m.
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Friday, Dec. 18: end of the first semester
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1, 2027: holiday break
  • Feb. 16-19: winter break, after Presidents’ Day on Monday, Feb. 15

The school’s About page gives its hours: students may enter at 8 a.m., are tardy after 8:30 a.m., and car riders and walkers are dismissed at 3:10 p.m. The front office is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.

Programs

  • Arts integration: every student gets weekly instruction in art, music, dance and drama, and classroom teachers “integrate the performing and visual arts in teaching academic content,” according to the school’s programs page.
  • Building: the About page says the school was fully renovated in summer 2023 and has an arts wing and a performance stage.
  • Title I: the About page lists the school as a Title I Distinguished School.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Hickory Hills Elementary School serve?

Hickory Hills Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade in the state’s 2025 report. It is a Marietta City Schools elementary school at 500 Redwood Drive SW.

What is Hickory Hills Elementary’s CCRPI score?

Hickory Hills Elementary scored 77.6 on Georgia’s College and Career Ready Performance Index in the state’s 2025 School Grades report, down from 87.6 in 2024.

Which middle and high school does Hickory Hills Elementary feed into?

Hickory Hills Elementary students go on to the Marietta Sixth Grade Academy, then Marietta Middle School for grades 7 and 8 and Marietta High School. The district has one school at each of those levels.

What time does Hickory Hills Elementary start?

Students may enter at 8 a.m. and are tardy after 8:30 a.m. Car riders and walkers are dismissed at 3:10 p.m., according to the school’s About page.