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Enrollment
917
Middle
DISTRICT 761 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BARTOW COUNTY·NCES 130033001868
Cass Middle School
195 Fire Tower Rd NW, Cartersville, GA 30120 · (770) 606-5846 · Bartow County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL917 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of Georgia public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
16.0:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
627 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 306 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 325 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 286 | 31% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
37.4%
GA avg 40.1% . +2.4pp since 2021
Math
52.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +10.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 10 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.4% | 52.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.3% | 43.1% |
| 2022-23 | 34.6% | 38.8% |
| 2021-22 | 35.0% | 41.9% |
% 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
42.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 Cass Middle School
Cass Middle School's state test result (42.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cass Middle School this school | 917 | 68.4% | 42.4% |
| Glynn Middle School Brunswick | 735 | 74.6% | 51.1% |
| Haymon-Morris Middle School Winder | 973 | 61.6% | 41.0% |
| Pine Grove Middle School Valdosta | 733 | 71.5% | 56.5% |
| Long County Middle School Ludowici | 1,007 | 77.9% | 30.4% |
| Bear Creek Middle School Statham | 752 | 57.7% | 35.4% |
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 Cass Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #179 of 470 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #127 of 474 ▲ 54 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #209 of 474 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.4pp | #154 of 465 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 917 | #132 of 487 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #384 of 471 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.8% | #109 of 471 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.4% | #297 of 479 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.4% | #268 of 305 |
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
917
-29 (-3%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 703
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 917 | 57.4 | 16.0:1 | 68% (627) |
| 2023-24 | 927 | 54.6 | 17.0:1 | 74% (683) |
| 2022-23 | 879 | 53.1 | 16.6:1 | 58% (506) |
| 2020-21 | 946 | 54 | 17.5:1 | 53% (501) |
| 2017-18 | 940 | 56.2 | 16.7:1 | 60% (568) |
| 2015-16 | 945 | 55 | 17.2:1 | 62% (589) |
| 2010-11 | 1,042 | 61 | 17.1:1 | 63% (654) |
| 2000-01 | 963 | 66 | 14.6:1 | 44% (424) |
| 1990-91 | 703 | 53 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cass Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (940 to 917); teachers up 2% (56.2 to 57.4).
About Cass Middle School
In Cartersville, Georgia, part of Bartow County, Cass Middle School is a middle school. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 917 students. That is 20% above the average of about 763 students for middle schools in Georgia.
Bartow County oversees Cass Middle School and 18 other schools, with 14,019 students in total.
At Cass Middle School, 52% of students are White. Other students are 22% Hispanic, 17% Black, and 7% multiracial. That is lower than the 76% White share among all Bartow County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.0:1. The school has 57.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia is 1.9 students per teacher. In all, 68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Georgia public middle schools, Cass Middle School outscored 61%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Cass Middle School would score about 42.0%. It scores 42.4%, within a point of that figure.
In Bartow County, home to about 113,113 people, the median household earns about $82,243 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Public schools in Bartow County number 23, with about 18,705 students.
Hamilton Crossing Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 3. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Cass Middle School ranks 4th of 9 on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Cass Middle School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000 (Suburb: Small).
Enrollment decreased 3% over 4 years, reaching 917 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.5:1 to 16.0:1.
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Bartow County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
113,113
Census ACS
Median income
$82,243
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
18,705 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bartow County
- Cass High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Woodland High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Adairsville High SchoolHigh · 1,206 students
- Adairsville Elementary SchoolElementary · 868 students
- Adairsville Middle SchoolMiddle · 862 students
- Woodland Middle School at EuharleeMiddle · 696 students
Other schools in Cartersville
- Cartersville Primary SchoolElementary · 1,507 students
- Cartersville High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
- Woodland High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Cartersville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- Hamilton Crossing Elementary SchoolElementary · 653 students
- Cloverleaf ElementaryElementary · 646 students
Nearby schools
- Hamilton Crossing Elementary School0.2 mi · 653
- Clear Creek Elementary School3.3 mi · 614
- Kingston Elementary School4.2 mi · 473
- Mission Road Elementary School5.4 mi · 598
- Cartersville High School6.6 mi · 1,469
- White Elementary School6.7 mi · 562
Frequently asked questions
About Cass Middle SchoolHow many students attend Cass Middle School?
Cass Middle School enrolls approximately 917 students in grades 06-08.
Is Cass Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cass Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cass Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cass Middle School is approximately 16.0:1 (57 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cass Middle School?
At Cass Middle School, the student body is approximately 52% White, 22% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Cass Middle School in?
Cass Middle School is part of Bartow County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.