Carver Road Middle School

Set in Griffin, Georgia, Carver Road Middle School is a modestly sized 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Griffin-Spalding County. It hosts 435 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 763 students per school, that is 43% below typical.

Carver Road Middle School is one of 18 schools operated by Griffin-Spalding County, a district that instructs 9,350 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Carver Road Middle School logs that Black students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder reads as 20% White, 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the resource side, Carver Road Middle School lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Spalding County runs at roughly 92%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carver Road Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 26.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Spalding County indicate median household income runs about $62,071, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Spalding County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,350 students), Carver Road Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Moreland Road Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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), Carver Road Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 23.7%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carver Road Middle School has contracted 11%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 435 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 33% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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