Editing Marietta, Georgia (section)

== Education ==
All of the [[state school|public schools]] in Marietta proper are operated by the [[Marietta City Schools (Georgia)|Marietta City Schools]] (MCS), while the remainder of the schools in Cobb County, but outside the city limits, is operated by the [[Cobb County School District]], including all of the county's other cities.  MCS has one high school, [[Marietta High School (Georgia)|Marietta High School]], grades 9–12; a [[middle school]], Marietta Middle School, grades 7 and 8; Marietta Sixth Grade Academy; and several [[elementary school]]s: A.L. Burruss, Dunleith, Hickory Hills, Lockheed, Marietta Center for Advanced Academics, Park Street, Sawyer Road, and West Side.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marietta-city.org/schools/ |title=Marietta City Schools: School Listing |publisher=Marietta-city.org |access-date=June 24, 2012}}</ref> Many residents of Marietta attend Cobb County public schools, such as Joseph Wheeler High School, Sprayberry High School, Alan C. Pope High School, and Walton High School. These schools are known to compete fiercely in athletics, especially basketball, as both Wheeler and Marietta High School frequently produce D-1 players.  The town of Marietta is also home to the [[The Walker School|Walker School]], a private pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade school.  Walker competes in the [[Georgia High School Association]] Class A (Region 6) athletic division while Marietta and Wheeler compete in Class AAAAAA (Regions 4 and 5, respectively).

The school system employs 1,200 people. MCS is an [[International Baccalaureate]] (IB) World School district. In 2008, MCS became only the second IB World School district in Georgia authorized to offer the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) for grades 6–10. MCS is one of only a few school systems nationwide able to provide the full IB (K-12) continuum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marietta-city.org/aboutus/factsheet.php#fcsh1/ |title=Marietta City Schools: About Us: Fact Sheet |publisher=Marietta-city.org |access-date=June 24, 2012}}</ref>

The Marietta Campus of [[Kennesaw State University]], formerly known as Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) before being merged into Kennesaw State, and [[Life University]] are located in Marietta, serving more than 20,000 students in more than 90 programs of study. <!---CTC is actually in the [[Fair Oaks, Georgia|Fair Oaks]] [[census-designated place]], just outside the [[city limits]]--->