Etowah High School, 6565 Putnam Ford Drive, Woodstock: grades 9-12, 2,486 students in 2025, CCRPI 90.6. Zone, report card and bell times.
Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Etowah High 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, the Georgia High School Association and the federal NCES school directory.
Etowah High School is a Cherokee County School District high school for ninth through 12th 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.
The school’s about page says the campus covers about 80 acres, with eight main buildings and two more on an east campus, and that Etowah graduated 544 students in 2025. The same page lists its 2025 Advanced Placement designations from the state: AP Humanities School, AP Humanities Achievement School, AP School of Distinction, AP STEM School and AP STEM Achievement School.
- Address: 6565 Putnam Ford Drive, Woodstock, GA 30189
- Phone: 770-721-3120
- Grades: 9 to 12
- Website: ehs.cherokeek12.net
- School day: 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Who to call
- Etowah High front office: 770-721-3120
- 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 Etowah zone transportation line, 770-721-5553, listed on its transportation contacts page, and the bus stop look-up
Principal
Principal Ken Nix, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
The state counted 2,486 students at Etowah High in its 2025 School Grades data, covering the 2024-25 school year, against 2,571 a year earlier. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 2,449 students and 152 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 16.1 students per teacher.
State report card
Etowah High’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 90.6, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for high schools was 76.9 and the Cherokee County School District’s was 89.8. The school scored 86.9 in 2023 and 82.9 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 Etowah High report card.
The state’s 2025 data put the four-year graduation rate at 92.5% for the Class of 2025, against 87.2% for Georgia and 91.8% for the district. For the Class of 2026, the district reported Sept. 28 a rate of 93.4%, against 93.8% districtwide and 88.5% statewide.
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, plus graduation rate for high schools. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.
Georgia Milestones end-of-course tests, 2025, share of tested students scoring Proficient and Distinguished, the two upper achievement levels:
| Subject | Proficient | Distinguished |
|---|---|---|
| English (American literature) | 43.7% | 16.2% |
| Math (algebra) | 33% | 23.9% |
| Science (biology) | 42.7% | 21.7% |
| Social studies (U.S. history) | 42.8% | 30.7% |
Attendance zone
Zones are set by the district and do not follow city limits or ZIP codes. Open the district’s Etowah High 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 E.T. Booth Middle to Etowah High, with these elementary schools feeding that middle school: Bascomb Elementary, Boston Elementary, Clark Creek Elementary and Oak Grove Elementary.
Most of the Etowah zone lies west of the city. Our neighborhoods guide found only a few buildings inside the city limits, at the northwest corner of the Towne Lake area, zoned for Bascomb Elementary, E.T. Booth Middle and Etowah.
Our neighborhood guides with homes in this zone: Towne Lake.
We found no boundary change approved by the school board that affects Etowah High 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.
Sports and activities
Etowah High plays in Region 5-AAAAAAA of the Georgia High School Association for 2026-27, according to the GHSA region alignment. The other region schools are Cherokee, Marietta, North Cobb, North Paulding, Paulding County, Walton and Wheeler. The teams are the Eagles, according to the school’s leadership page. Schedules and results: our Friday night football page and the scoreboard.
The school’s athletics page lists teams in baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, cross-country, flag football, football, boys and girls golf, gymnastics, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls soccer, softball, swim and dive, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls track, volleyball and wrestling.
Programs, as the school names them: Advanced Placement courses, which the school’s about page lists with its state AP designations, and the district’s dual enrollment program for college courses.
Calendar and bell times
The district’s start and end times page has Etowah High starting at 8:15 a.m. and dismissing at 3:15 p.m. for 2026-27 (every Cherokee County high school keeps 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. except Cherokee and Creekview).
From the district’s 2026-27 calendar:
- Monday, Oct. 12: student holiday, teacher planning
- 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 and athletics
- The state’s report card for Etowah High
- 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 Etowah High serve?
Ninth through 12th grade. The state counted 2,486 students in the 2024-25 school year.
What is Etowah High’s CCRPI score?
90.6 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia high school average of 76.9 and a Cherokee County School District average of 89.8.
What is Etowah High’s graduation rate?
93.4% for the Class of 2026, the district said Sept. 28, 2026. The state’s 2025 data put it at 92.5% for the Class of 2025.
What region is Etowah High in?
Region 5-AAAAAAA of the Georgia High School Association for 2026-27.
What time does Etowah High start?
The district’s 2026-27 schedule has Etowah High starting at 8:15 a.m. and dismissing at 3:15 p.m.
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