Pope High School, 3001 Hembree Road, Marietta: grades 9-12, 1,820 students in 2025, CCRPI 97.1. Zone, report card and bell times.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Pope High website, the Cobb County School District’s attendance zones, feeder pattern chart, bell schedule 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.

Pope High School (Alan C. Pope High School) is a Cobb County School District high school for ninth through 12th grade on Hembree Road in East Cobb. The school’s about page says it was founded in 1987. Its mailing address says Marietta, but the address sits outside any city’s limits, in unincorporated Cobb County, according to the Census Bureau’s geocoder.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Matthew Bradford, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,820 students at Pope High in its 2025 School Grades data, against 1,796 in 2024. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 1,758 students and 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 17.6 students per teacher.

State report card

Pope High’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 97.1, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for high schools was 76.9 and the Cobb County School District’s was 84.6. The school scored 95.1 in 2023 and 93.8 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 Pope High report card.

The school’s four-year graduation rate was 98.2% in 2025, against 87.2% for Georgia and 89.2% for the district.

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) 55% 27.3%
Math (algebra) 37.7% 41.4%
Science (biology) 46.9% 37.8%
Social studies (U.S. history) 39.6% 49.6%

Attendance zone

Zones are set by the district and do not follow ZIP codes. Check any address with the district’s school and bus locator, or open the district’s Pope zone map (PDF) from its attendance zones page. The district says its posted maps “do not preclude any future changes” and asks families not to make a home purchase based on them alone.

The district’s feeder pattern chart, updated June 30, 2024, lists these middle school zones feeding Pope High: Dodgen Middle (34% of its zone) and Hightower Trail Middle. Elementary schools whose students can end up at Pope High, from the same chart and the schools’ own feeder pages: Mountain View Elementary, Murdock Elementary, Shallowford Falls Elementary, Timber Ridge Elementary and Tritt Elementary.

We found no rezoning approved by the Board of Education that changes the Pope zone for 2026-27; the district’s posted zone maps are labeled 2022-23 for high schools and 2023-24 for middle and elementary schools.

Sports and activities

Pope plays in Region 6-AAAAAA of the Georgia High School Association for 2026-27, according to the GHSA region alignment. The other region schools are Creekview, Kell, Lassiter, River Ridge, Rome, Sequoyah and Woodstock. The teams are the Greyhounds. Schedules and results: our Friday night football page and the scoreboard.

The school’s athletics site lists teams in baseball, basketball, competition cheer, cross country, fastpitch softball, flag football, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, one act play, soccer, swim and dive, tennis, track, volleyball and wrestling.

Programs, as the school names them: the Academies at Pope, a Globalization Academy and a STEM Academy that the academies page describes as career pathways for “students of exceptional merit,” plus Advanced Placement courses and AP Capstone.

Calendar and bell times

The district’s 2026-27 bell schedule (PDF) has Pope High starting at 8:20 a.m. and dismissing at 3:30 p.m. (all Cobb high schools keep the same hours).

From the district’s 2026-27 calendar (PDF):

  • Monday, Oct. 12: digital learning day
  • Tuesday, Oct. 13, to Friday, Oct. 16: conference week, early release for elementary and middle schools only
  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, student holiday
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Thursday, Dec. 17, and Friday, Dec. 18: early release, all schools
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4, is a student holiday
  • Wednesday, May 19, 2027: last day of school

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Pope High serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. The state counted 1,820 students in 2025.

What is Pope High’s CCRPI score?

97.1 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia high school average of 76.9 and a Cobb County School District average of 84.6.

What is Pope High’s graduation rate?

98.2% for the four-year cohort in 2025, according to the state’s data, against 87.2% for Georgia and 89.2% for the district.

What region is Pope High in?

Region 6-AAAAAA of the Georgia High School Association for 2026-27.

What time does Pope High start?

The district’s 2026-27 bell schedule has Pope High starting at 8:20 a.m. and dismissing at 3:30 p.m.