Blackmon Road Middle School

Blackmon Road Middle School, a close-knit middle-grades school in Columbus, Georgia, overseen by Muscogee County, works with 478 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.

Muscogee County runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 30,091 students. Blackmon Road Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Blackmon Road Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Blackmon Road Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Blackmon Road Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Across the wider county, Muscogee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,073 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Muscogee County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students), of which Blackmon Road Middle School is one.

Eagle Ridge Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blackmon Road Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Blackmon Road Middle School's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 478). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 46% to 30%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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