Coastal Middle School

Located at 4595 US Highway 80 E, in Savannah, Georgia, Coastal Middle School is a tight-knit middle school that educates 486 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Savannah-Chatham County. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 763.

Within Savannah-Chatham County, which oversees 58 schools and 36,355 students, Coastal Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Coastal Middle School records that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 24% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the resource side, Coastal Middle School reports 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Chatham County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Coastal Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Chatham County indicate median household income runs about $71,097, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Chatham County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), of which Coastal Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Marshpoint Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coastal Middle School. On composite proficiency, Coastal Middle School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

Coastal Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 32%: 719 students in 2018 compared to 486 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 60% to 55% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Coastal Middle School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.