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Enrollment
723
Middle
DISTRICT 606 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARROLL COUNTY·NCES 130084002239
Bay Springs Middle School
122 Bay Springs Rd, Villa Rica, GA 30180 · (770) 459-2098 · Carroll County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL723 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of Georgia public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
282 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 232 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 218 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 273 | 38% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
42.2%
GA avg 40.1% . +1.5pp since 2021
Math
57.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +12.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.2% | 57.1% |
| 2023-24 | 38.5% | 45.7% |
| 2022-23 | 40.3% | 40.2% |
| 2021-22 | 40.7% | 44.8% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bay Springs Middle School
Bay Springs Middle School's state test result (45.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Springs Middle School this school | 723 | 39.0% | 45.1% |
| Mossy Creek Middle School Kathleen | 796 | 44.1% | 57.0% |
| Madras Middle School Newnan | 754 | 35.3% | 55.8% |
| Temple Middle School Temple | 682 | 45.5% | 40.1% |
| East Paulding Middle School Dallas | 630 | 46.3% | 45.8% |
| Lee Middle School Sharpsburg | 730 | 39.9% | 46.6% |
Matched among Georgia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bay Springs Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Carroll County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #159 of 470 | #3 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #101 of 474 ▲ 58 | #2 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #164 of 474 ▲ 60 | #3 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.9pp | #143 of 465 | #1 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 723 | #252 of 487 | #3 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #97 of 471 | #1 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #105 of 471 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.0% | #417 of 479 | #6 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #193 of 305 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
723
-164 (-18%) vs 2020
-24% since 2000-01, when it was 949
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 16.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 723 | 56.9 | 12.7:1 | 39% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 896 | 61.1 | 14.7:1 | 67% (601) |
| 2022-23 | 930 | 58.7 | 15.8:1 | 57% (527) |
| 2020-21 | 887 | 54 | 16.4:1 | 57% (505) |
| 2017-18 | 778 | 50.3 | 15.5:1 | 58% (449) |
| 2015-16 | 772 | 50 | 15.4:1 | 66% (512) |
| 2010-11 | 753 | 48 | 15.7:1 | 66% (499) |
| 2000-01 | 949 | 55 | 17.3:1 | 40% (383) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bay Springs Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (778 to 723); teachers up 13% (50.3 to 56.9).
About Bay Springs Middle School
A mid-sized middle school in Villa Rica, Georgia, Bay Springs Middle School is part of Carroll County. It had 723 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8.
Carroll County has 24 schools; together they serve 16,400 students.
About 50% of students at Bay Springs Middle School are White, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 28% Black, 12% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Among all residents of Carroll County, the White share is about 68%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
Bay Springs Middle School lists 56.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 12.7 students per teacher. The school's 12.7:1 compares with an average of 14.1:1 for middle schools in Georgia. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 39% of the student body. That is 9 points below the 48% average for public schools in Carroll County.
Bay Springs Middle School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 46% of Georgia public middle schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Bay Springs Middle School is 57.2%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 45.1%.
In the wider Carroll County area, median household income comes to about $73,714, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Carroll County counts 28 public schools with about 22,250 students.
Measured in a straight line, Ithica Elementary is about 1.0 miles from Bay Springs Middle School. The five-mile area around Bay Springs Middle School holds 6 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 43.9% proficiency; Bay Springs Middle School posts 45.1%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Fringe.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 164 students, from 887 to 723. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.7:1) than in 2020-21 (16.4:1).
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Carroll County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
124,569
Census ACS
Median income
$73,714
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
22,250 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Carroll County
- Villa Rica High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,338 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 991 students
- Temple High SchoolHigh · 868 students
- Ithica ElementaryElementary · 809 students
Other schools in Villa Rica
- Villa Rica High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Ithica ElementaryElementary · 809 students
- Glanton-Hindsman ElementaryElementary · 691 students
- Mirror Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Villa Rica Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- New Georgia Elementary SchoolElementary · 336 students
Other Bay Springs Middle schools
One other US public school is named Bay Springs Middle. Bay Springs Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Bay Springs Middle SchoolBAY SPRINGS, MS · 181 students
Nearby schools
- Ithica Elementary1.0 mi · 809
- Villa Rica High School2.5 mi · 1,681
- Glanton-Hindsman Elementary2.8 mi · 691
- Villa Rica Elementary School3.0 mi · 513
- Sand Hill Elementary School4.1 mi · 733
- Mirror Lake Elementary School4.5 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About Bay Springs Middle SchoolHow many students attend Bay Springs Middle School?
Bay Springs Middle School enrolls approximately 723 students in grades 06-08.
Is Bay Springs Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bay Springs Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Bay Springs Middle School?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Bay Springs Middle School.
How diverse is Bay Springs Middle School?
Bay Springs Middle School reports a student body of 50% White, 12% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Bay Springs Middle School public or private?
Bay Springs Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Carroll County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.