About East Side
East Side Elementary School is an amazing place to teach, lead, and learn. East Side is one of the largest elementary schools in Cobb County, with about 1,040 students. We are very proud of our high-achieving students and support them on their academic journey! Currently, our demographics are 55% White, 29% Asian, 4% African American, 6% Hispanic, and 5% Multiracial. Our large, three-story building was completed in August of 2011. We are very fortunate to have modern indoor and outdoor facilities for all our students, staff, and families to enjoy. Our playground just received an upgrade with a new playground, which was funded by our Foundation and PTA. We also have a beautiful turf field that our students enjoy daily.
East Side students and staff work very hard to maintain our excellent academic distinction within the community. During the 2024-25 school year, East Side earned an overall school score of 93.2 points on the College and Career Ready Performance Index. We have also been recognized by the GADOE as a Literacy Leader School for the previous two school years. Additionally, in the summer of 2026, we were recognized by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, receiving the Gold level SSAS Award. This award was presented to schools that received high performance over the past three consecutive school years. We are very proud of our students and our staff for this recognition!
East Side is a Cobb County STEM-certified school. We received our Cobb STEM certification August 2018 and were recertified in May 2023. We have also received our Library Learning Commons Certification in January 2024.
East Side’s mission is: ENCOURAGE, ENGAGE, EMPOWER. Our students and staff strive to Encourage, Engage, and Empower everyone, everyday!
Competitions and Tournaments
2019 Cobb's Intermediate Math Tournament- 1st Place
2019 Science Olympiad State Tournament- 1st Place
History of East Side
Lois Holcomb donated the 10 acres of land on Roswell Road to the Cobb County Board of Education in 1946. They originally planned to name the school Mt. Bethel Elementary because it was being constructed to replace a two-room school of the same name.
It was at the opening of the school in 1952 that it was named East Side Elementary. East Side originally opened with 10 classrooms in a single building serving only 314 students in grades 1-8.
Previous additions to the school include two new classrooms in 1957, four in 1962, four in 1965, a new wing with 11 classrooms, a cafeteria, kitchen and covered play area in 1969, a modular building addition in 1986 and another six-classroom wing was completed in 2002.
The Cobb County School Board approved a $15.6 million bid for the 149,892 square foot rebuild on Jan. 28, 2010. The new building was rebuilt in the shadow of its old building. Less than a month later, J & R Construction Company out of Carrollton broke ground on the massive project and was done in time to open it to the faculty and students in August of 2011.
Cobb families know the Cobb County School District has a reputation for excellence, as Cobb’s students consistently perform better than their peers. You could live anywhere, yet over 200,000 parents choose to raise their children in Cobb. You know that a Cobb education gives your children a competitive advantage for scholarships, college, future employment, and life.
Once again, Cobb families can feel even more confident their students are receiving a high-quality education following the most recent accreditation review by Cognia, one of Cobb’s accrediting agencies and one of the largest in the world.
After recently completing an Accreditation Engagement Review, which took almost one year to complete, every school in Cobb County has been accredited for an additional six years.
