Carmel Elementary School, 2275 Bascomb Carmel Road, Woodstock: grades PK-5, 986 students in 2025, CCRPI 79.9. Zone, report card and bell times.
Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Carmel Elementary website, the Cherokee County School District’s boundary maps, geographic assignment chart (PDF), start and end times and 2026-27 calendar, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.
Carmel Elementary School is a Cherokee County School District elementary school for pre-K through fifth grade. Its mailing address says Woodstock, but the campus sits outside the city limits, in unincorporated Cherokee County, according to the Census Bureau’s geocoder.
Carmel began as Chapman Elementary, which opened in March 1974 on land once owned by the Chapman family, its about page says. In spring 1999 the school board voted to move the school to a new site on Bascomb Carmel Road, about 1.3 miles away, on what had been a horse farm.
- Address: 2275 Bascomb Carmel Road, Woodstock, GA 30189
- Phone: 770-704-1184
- Grades: Pre-K to 5
- Website: carmeles.cherokeek12.net
- School day: 7:35 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Who to call
- Carmel Elementary front office: 770-704-1184
- Which school serves my address: the district, 770-479-1871, or its boundary maps
- Enroll a student: the district’s online registration; help at enrollment.support@cherokee.incidentiq.com
- Buses: the district’s Woodstock zone transportation line, 770-721-5552, listed on its transportation contacts page, and the bus stop look-up
Principal
Principal Lisa Rich, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
The state counted 986 students at Carmel Elementary in its 2025 School Grades data, covering the 2024-25 school year, against 956 a year earlier. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 891 students and 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.0 students per teacher.
State report card
Carmel Elementary’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 79.9, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for elementary schools was 78.6 and the Cherokee County School District’s was 85.3. The school scored 87.1 in 2023 and 83.4 in 2024. Scores can move a lot from one year to the next at a single school. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Carmel Elementary report card.
CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.
Georgia Milestones end-of-grade tests, 2025, share of tested students scoring Proficient and Distinguished, the two upper achievement levels:
| Subject | Proficient | Distinguished |
|---|---|---|
| English language arts | 32.8% | 16.2% |
| Math | 34.9% | 23.2% |
| Science (fifth grade) | 46.2% | 23.5% |
In the same data, 40.7% of third graders and 65.2% of fifth graders read at or above the state’s grade-level target.
Attendance zone
Zones are set by the district and do not follow city limits or ZIP codes. Open the district’s Carmel Elementary zone map (PDF) from its boundary maps page, or call 770-479-1871 to confirm the school for an address, as the district’s enrollment page advises.
The district’s geographic assignment chart (PDF) sends Carmel Elementary students to Woodstock Middle and then Woodstock High.
Our neighborhood guides with homes in this zone: Towne Lake, Ridgewalk and Highway 92 and I-575.
We found no boundary change approved by the school board that affects Carmel Elementary for 2026-27. The district says the superintendent recommends school boundaries and the board approves them each year, with focus-group hearings when new schools open or growth requires changes.
Calendar and bell times
The district’s start and end times page has Carmel Elementary starting at 7:35 a.m. and dismissing at 2:15 p.m. for 2026-27 (all district elementary schools keep the same hours).
From the district’s 2026-27 calendar:
- Monday, Oct. 12: student holiday, teacher planning
- Oct. 13-16: elementary conference days, early release for pre-K to fifth grade at 11:30 a.m.
- Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, remote learning day for students
- Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break, schools and district closed
- Friday, Dec. 18: last day of the first semester
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: holiday break; Monday, Jan. 4, is a student holiday and classes resume Tuesday, Jan. 5
- Jan. 28-29: conference days, early release for all grades
- Feb. 15-19 and April 5-9: weeklong breaks
- Tuesday, May 25, 2027: last day of school
More
- The school’s website
- The state’s report card for Carmel Elementary
- The district’s boundary maps
- Every public school in Woodstock, with zones and scores: our Woodstock public schools guide
- District calendar, registration and the school board: our Woodstock schools guide
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Carmel Elementary serve?
Pre-K through fifth grade. The state counted 986 students in the 2024-25 school year.
What is Carmel Elementary’s CCRPI score?
79.9 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia elementary school average of 78.6 and a Cherokee County School District average of 85.3.
Which middle and high school does Carmel Elementary feed into?
Woodstock Middle and then Woodstock High, according to the Cherokee County School District’s geographic assignment chart.
What time does Carmel Elementary start?
The district’s 2026-27 schedule has Carmel Elementary starting at 7:35 a.m. and dismissing at 2:15 p.m.
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