Wheeler High, East Cobb: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Wheeler 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.

Wheeler High School is a Cobb County School District high school for ninth through 12th grade on Holt Road in East Cobb. It is home to one of the district’s magnet programs, the Center for Advanced Studies in Science, Mathematics and Technology, which the district’s magnet programs page says was the first program in Georgia to become both STEM and STEAM certified. 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.

• Address: 375 Holt Road, Marietta, GA 30068
• Phone: 770-578-3266
• Grades: 9 to 12
• Website: cobbk12.org/wheeler

Who to call

• Wheeler High front office: 770-578-3266
• Enroll a student: the district’s enrollment page; families who need an interpreter can call the International Welcome Center at 678-331-3086
• Bus routes and transportation: the district’s Transportation Department, 678-594-8000, and its bus route finder
• Cobb County School District main line: 770-426-3300
• Is this your school? Enter an address in the school and bus locator

Principal

Principal Sara Fetterman, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 2,581 students at Wheeler High in its 2025 School Grades data, against 2,609 in 2024. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 2,380 students and 142 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 16.8 students per teacher.

State report card

Wheeler High’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 84.1, 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 87.6 in 2023 and 91.3 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 Wheeler High report card.

The school’s four-year graduation rate was 89.4% 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:

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 Wheeler 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 Wheeler High: East Cobb Middle. Elementary schools whose students can end up at Wheeler High, from the same chart and the schools’ own feeder pages: Brumby Elementary, Eastvalley Elementary, Powers Ferry Elementary, Sedalia Park Elementary and Sope Creek Elementary.

We found no rezoning approved by the Board of Education that changes the Wheeler 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

Wheeler 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, Etowah, Marietta, North Cobb, North Paulding, Paulding County and Walton. The teams are the Wildcats. Schedules and results: our Friday night football page and the scoreboard.

The school’s athletic directory lists head coaches for football, volleyball, softball, cross country, competition and sideline cheer, rifle, literary, flag football and esports in the fall; boys and girls basketball, wrestling and swim and dive in the winter; and baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, soccer, tennis and track, gymnastics and boys and girls golf in the spring.

The Center for Advanced Studies in Science, Mathematics and Technology is a district magnet program open to students from across Cobb by application. The district’s magnet programs page says its curriculum includes 26 AP and seven post-AP courses, with engineering and medical biotechnology and a senior internship. The 2026-27 application window runs Oct. 1 to Dec. 1, and Wheeler’s prospective magnet student night is 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15. Coordinator: Christopher Walstead, 770-578-3286.

Calendar and bell times

The district’s 2026-27 bell schedule (PDF) has Wheeler 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

More

• The school’s website and athletic directory
• The state’s report card for Wheeler High
• Every public school in East Cobb, with zones and scores: our East Cobb public schools guide
• District calendar, registration and the Board of Education: our East Cobb schools guide

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Wheeler High serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. The state counted 2,581 students in 2025.

What is Wheeler High’s CCRPI score?

84.1 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 Wheeler High’s graduation rate?

89.4% 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 Wheeler High in?

Region 5-AAAAAAA of the Georgia High School Association for 2026-27.

What time does Wheeler High start?

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