Cobb County: A Thriving Metro Atlanta Community

• Located immediately northwest of Atlanta, Cobb County has a population of 717,190, the fourth largest in Georgia.

• 42.2% of residents 25 and older have earned bachelor’s degrees or higher.

• Cobb has a self-contained public transportation system and is trisected by three major interstates. The business and shopping districts feature the Galleria Centre and Cumberland Mall in the south, and Town Center Mall to the north.

• Established in 1834, Marietta is the hub of Cobb County and is a vibrant city with a bustling downtown square, historic neighborhoods and an extensive parks and recreation system.

• Hundreds of businesses are based in Cobb County, including Fortune 500 companies Lockheed Martin, The Home Depot and IBM.

• Cobb is home to Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University, two of the state’s fastest-growing public universities.

• With venues such as the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, two Six Flags theme parks, and Fifth Third Bank Stadium at KSU, a variety of cultural, recreational and sporting events take place in Cobb year-round. The Atlanta Braves baseball club will join the community in 2017 when the team moves into its new stadium in south Cobb County.

Music & Fine Arts

• NAMM Foundation & American Music Conference named Cobb among the Best Communities for Music Education 12 times.

  • 40,000+ students enrolled in music elective programs: band, chorus, orchestra, general music, music appreciation, piano keyboarding, AP music theory, and guitar

  • 49,000+ elementary students receive music instruction

  • More than 200 state and national Invitational Band, Chorus, and Orchestra Concert Performances

  • Magnet program at Pebblebrook High School offers specialized instruction in voice, drama, dance

• Visual arts instruction offered at all grade levels, including advanced courses.

  • Student artists consistently place in local, state and national art shows and competitions

  • Collaboration with community artists, local museums and exhibits

Athletics & Activities

Cobb County Schools offer a variety of extracurricular activities at all grade levels and competitive interscholastic athletics programs for high school students. Cobb prep sports teams and student groups have won these recent accolades at the state, regional, or national levels: