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Coffee Middle School
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Coffee Middle School
Coffee Middle School operates as a large middle school in Douglas, Georgia, overseen by Coffee County. Current enrollment sits at 1,591 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 763 students per school, that is 109% above typical.
Within Coffee County, which oversees 12 schools and 7,640 students, Coffee Middle School is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Coffee Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% Black, 23% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coffee Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of +4.0 points.
In the surrounding community, Coffee County reports that median household income runs about $50,683, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Coffee County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,640 students), of which Coffee Middle School is one.
Eastside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Coffee Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coffee Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.1%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,557 students in 2018 compared to 1,591 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 48% to 43%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Coffee Middle School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
Coffee County at a glance
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