Chestnut Log Middle School

Chestnut Log Middle School is one of the mid-sized intermediate schools in Douglasville, Georgia, run under Douglas County, with 719 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Douglas County runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 25,521 students. Chestnut Log Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chestnut Log Middle School records that 57% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 28% Hispanic, 8% White, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at Chestnut Log Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Douglas County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chestnut Log Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household income runs about $82,984, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chestnut Log Middle School is one of 37 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 26,121 students).

Mount Carmel Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chestnut Log Middle School. On composite proficiency, Chestnut Log Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 4%: 693 students in 2018 compared to 719 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 28% across the same window.

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