Sawyer Road Elementary, 840 Sawyer Road: grades K-5, 652 students, 83.2 CCRPI in the state's 2025 report. Office: 770-429-9923.
Last checked Oct. 5, 2026. Sources: Sawyer Road 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.
Sawyer Road Elementary School is one of seven zoned elementary schools in Marietta City Schools, the city’s own school district. It sits on Sawyer Road, east of I-75, inside the city limits. In the city’s parcel data, 3,977 parcels, about 19% of those in the city, are zoned to it. It is the zoned school for most of our Roswell Street (61% of parcels) and Sawyer Road (60%) areas.
Who to call
- Front office: 770-429-9923, 840 Sawyer Road, Marietta, GA 30062
- School website: sawyerroad.marietta-city.org
- Enrolling a new student: the district’s student registration page; questions go to Strategy and Innovation, 770-422-3500, ext. 7297
- Buses: Marietta City Schools Transportation, 770-429-3110
- District main line: 770-422-3500
| Address | 840 Sawyer Road, Marietta, GA 30062 |
| Phone | 770-429-9923 |
| 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 Jill Waldrep, according to the school’s Meet the Principal page. She writes that she became principal for the 2025-26 school year after serving as assistant principal at A.L. Burruss Elementary.
Enrollment and teachers
- Federal count: 546 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about nine students per teacher.
- State count: 652 students in the state’s 2025 School Grades report, compared with 675 in 2024 and 713 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 | 83.2 |
| 2024 | 84.0 |
| 2023 | 79.9 |
The 2025 score breaks down into content mastery 68.2, progress 98.5, closing gaps 76.5 and readiness 83.9, each a component score out of 100. In reading, 35.7% of third graders and 53.8% 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 | 36.5% | 6.9% |
| Math | 38.6% | 13.9% |
| Science (fifth grade) | 27.5% | 2.5% |
See the full report on the state’s School Grades page for Sawyer Road 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 Sawyer Road Elementary student goes on to the Marietta Sixth Grade Academy, then Marietta Middle and Marietta High.
For 2026-27, the district’s charter system page listed Sawyer Road Elementary as accepting school choice applications in second and third grades. Choice lets a family in another elementary zone apply for an open seat; the application window is Nov. 1 to 15.
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 does not publish its bell times on its public pages.
Programs
- International Baccalaureate: Sawyer Road became an IB World School authorized to teach the Primary Years Program on Dec. 14, 2007, according to the district’s IB page. The school’s About page says all of its students receive IB instruction.
- Specials: the About page lists 50 minutes a day of art, music, drama and Spanish, and a weekly session in the school’s STEAM lab.
- Staff: the About page lists 34 classroom teachers, 31 support teachers and 37 gifted-certified teachers.
More on Marietta schools
- The school’s website and the district’s Our Schools page
- Every public school in Marietta
- Our Marietta neighborhoods guide for the elementary zone in each part of the city
- Our Marietta schools guide for registration, school choice and board meetings
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Sawyer Road Elementary School serve?
Sawyer Road Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade in the state’s 2025 report. It is a Marietta City Schools elementary school at 840 Sawyer Road.
What is Sawyer Road Elementary’s CCRPI score?
Sawyer Road Elementary scored 83.2 on Georgia’s College and Career Ready Performance Index in the state’s 2025 School Grades report, down from 84.0 in 2024.
Which middle and high school does Sawyer Road Elementary feed into?
Sawyer Road 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.
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