Bear Creek Middle School

Bear Creek Middle School is a middle school of mid-sized scale in Fairburn, Georgia, overseen by Fulton County, caters to 971 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 763.

Fulton County comprises 107 schools with combined enrollment of 87,563 students; Bear Creek Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Bear Creek Middle School lists that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bear Creek Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 28.1%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fulton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Bear Creek Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Creekside High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bear Creek Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bear Creek Middle School's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,195 (now 971).

On allk12, members of the Bear Creek Middle School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.