Ashworth Middle School

As a low-enrollment intermediate school in Calhoun, Georgia, Ashworth Middle School enrolls 578 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Gordon County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Ashworth Middle School sits 24% below that benchmark.

Ashworth Middle School is one of 10 schools operated by Gordon County, a district that caters to 6,259 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ashworth Middle School shows that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 29% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at Ashworth Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Gordon County's rate of about 90%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ashworth Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.2%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of +13.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Gordon County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,650 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Gordon County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,452 students), Ashworth Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Gordon Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ashworth Middle School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Ashworth Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ashworth Middle School has edged down 11%, going from 650 students in 2018 to 578 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 71% to 65%.

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