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Enrollment
486
Middle
DISTRICT 543 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY·NCES 130102002019
Coastal Middle School
4595 US Highway 80 E, Savannah, GA 31410 · (912) 395-3950 · Chatham County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Georgia public middle schools
- A-Test 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.
- AThree-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
10.3:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
234 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 163 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 159 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 164 | 34% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
47.7%
GA avg 40.1% . +11.5pp since 2021
Math
51.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +10.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 12 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.7% | 51.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.1% | 50.6% |
| 2022-23 | 35.3% | 43.8% |
| 2021-22 | 36.1% | 41.0% |
% 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
50.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Coastal Middle School
Coastal Middle School's state test result (50.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Middle School this school | 486 | 48.1% | 50.4% |
| Fairplay Middle School Douglasville | 523 | 46.8% | 51.2% |
| Clifton Ridge Middle School Macon | 482 | 45.2% | 40.7% |
| East Paulding Middle School Dallas | 630 | 46.3% | 45.8% |
| Temple Middle School Temple | 682 | 45.5% | 40.1% |
| Mt. Zion Middle School Carrollton | 404 | 47.5% | 34.8% |
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 Coastal Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Chatham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #112 of 470 | #2 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #139 of 474 ▼ 14 | #2 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #118 of 474 ▲ 5 | #2 of 9 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.8pp | #43 of 465 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #384 of 487 | #7 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #9 of 471 | #1 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #137 of 471 | #3 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.1% | #381 of 479 | #9 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.4% | #10 of 305 | #1 of 8 |
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
486
-158 (-25%) vs 2020
-48% since 2000-01, when it was 928
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 486 | 47.4 | 10.3:1 | 48% (234) |
| 2023-24 | 512 | 46.2 | 11.1:1 | 53% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 556 | 46.2 | 12.0:1 | 46% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 644 | 52 | 12.4:1 | 37% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 719 | 56.3 | 12.8:1 | 30% (218) |
| 2015-16 | 703 | 49 | 14.3:1 | 37% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 705 | 54 | 13.1:1 | 34% (242) |
| 2000-01 | 928 | 59 | 15.7:1 | 33% (310) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Coastal Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (719 to 486); teachers down 16% (56.3 to 47.4).
About Coastal Middle School
Coastal Middle School is one of the public schools in Savannah, Georgia. It is a small middle school. Enrollment is 486 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in Georgia is about 763 students, so this school is 36% smaller than average.
Coastal Middle School is one school in Savannah-Chatham County, a system of 58 schools with 36,355 students.
White students account for 55% of enrollment at Coastal Middle School. Other groups make up 24% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Coastal Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
A ratio of 10.3:1 comes from the school's 47.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 48% of students at Coastal Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Chatham County is 74%.
allk12 grades Coastal Middle School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Georgia public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Georgia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 52.5%. Coastal Middle School scores 50.4%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Chatham County, median household income is about $71,097, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Coastal Middle School is one of 60 public schools in Chatham County, which together enroll about 36,380 students.
Nearest public school: Marshpoint Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. The five-mile area around Coastal Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Coastal Middle School at 4th of 9.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The student count in 2024-25 was 486, 25% below the 644 of 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 12.4:1 to 10.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Chatham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
300,879
Census ACS
Median income
$71,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
36,380 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Savannah-Chatham County
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Groves High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- New Hampstead High SchoolHigh · 1,123 students
- New Hampstead K-8 SchoolElementary · 1,118 students
Other schools in Savannah
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- Windsor Forest High SchoolHigh · 1,069 students
- Hesse SchoolElementary · 996 students
- Beach High SchoolHigh · 973 students
Nearby schools
- Marshpoint Elementary School0.2 mi · 603
- Islands High School0.4 mi · 752
- Johnson High School2.8 mi · 762
- May Howard Elementary School2.8 mi · 539
- Savannah Early College High School3.0 mi · 151
- The School of Liberal Studies at Savannah High3.0 mi · 575
Frequently asked questions
About Coastal Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Coastal Middle School?
Coastal Middle School enrolls approximately 486 students in grades 06-08.
Is Coastal Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Coastal Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Coastal Middle School?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at Coastal Middle School.
How diverse is Coastal Middle School?
Coastal Middle School reports a student body of 55% White, 9% Hispanic, 24% Black, 5% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Coastal Middle School?
Coastal Middle School is overseen by Savannah-Chatham County in Chatham County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.