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What's one thing Cooper Middle School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,000
Middle
DISTRICT 921 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129002475
Cooper Middle School
4605 Ewing Rd, Austell, GA 30106 · (770) 819-2438 · Cobb County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,000 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
917 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 297 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 366 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 337 | 34% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Cooper Middle School→South Cobb High School
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from Cobb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
42.3%
GA avg 40.1% . +9.0pp since 2021
Math
47.3%
GA avg 44.6% . +14.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 9 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 15 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.3% | 47.3% |
| 2023-24 | 43.5% | 43.2% |
| 2022-23 | 41.9% | 39.0% |
| 2021-22 | 33.3% | 32.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 30% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 Cooper Middle School
Cooper Middle School's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper Middle School this school | 1,000 | 91.7% | 48.8% |
| Edwards Middle School Conyers | 934 | 89.0% | 31.6% |
| Tapp Middle School Powder Springs | 809 | 87.4% | 42.9% |
| Rex Mill Middle School Rex | 904 | 100.0% | 30.5% |
| Conyers Middle School Conyers | 943 | 100.0% | 25.4% |
| Jonesboro Middle School Jonesboro | 895 | 100.0% | 15.3% |
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 Cooper Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #126 of 470 | #12 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #174 of 474 ▲ 6 | #15 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #163 of 474 ▲ 2 | #19 of 28 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.8pp | #31 of 465 | #1 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,000 | #97 of 487 | #8 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #376 of 471 | #19 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.2% | #272 of 471 | #26 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.7% | #192 of 479 | #7 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.2% | #256 of 305 | #22 of 22 |
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
1,000
-53 (-5%) vs 2020
+22% since 2010-11, when it was 817
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 1,000 | 63.2 | 15.8:1 | 92% (917) |
| 2023-24 | 1,056 | 64.6 | 16.4:1 | 80% (846) |
| 2022-23 | 982 | 64.7 | 15.2:1 | 71% (696) |
| 2020-21 | 1,053 | 62 | 17.0:1 | 67% (705) |
| 2017-18 | 1,033 | 61.5 | 16.8:1 | 72% (740) |
| 2015-16 | 944 | 52 | 18.1:1 | 72% (681) |
| 2010-11 | 817 | 56 | 14.6:1 | 66% (538) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cooper Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (1,033 to 1,000); teachers up 3% (61.5 to 63.2).
About Cooper Middle School
Cooper Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in Austell, Georgia. In all, 1,000 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 31% larger than the 763-student average for middle schools in Georgia.
Cooper Middle School is run by Cobb County, whose 110 schools enroll 105,738 students.
At Cooper Middle School, 64% of students are Black. The remaining students are 26% Hispanic, 5% White, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Cobb County is about 27% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 52%.
Cooper Middle School lists 63.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 15.8 students per teacher. The gap from the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia is 1.7 students per teacher. About 92% of students at Cooper Middle School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Cobb County is 53%.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Cooper Middle School is 30.0%. It actually posts 48.8%, which is 18.9 points higher and in the top 10% of Georgia schools.
Looking at the county, Cobb County, median household income comes to about $102,738, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 51% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 129 public schools and about 116,609 students.
The closest school to Cooper Middle School is Clarkdale Elementary School, located about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 48.8% is above the 34.9% average for nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
From 1,053 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 1,000 by 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 17.0:1 to 15.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Cobb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
775,208
Census ACS
Median income
$102,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
116,609 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cobb County
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 3,085 students
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Pebblebrook High SchoolHigh · 2,574 students
- North Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,463 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
Other schools in Austell
- South Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Garrett Middle SchoolMiddle · 891 students
- Clarkdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 785 students
- Sanders Elementary SchoolElementary · 626 students
- Austell Elementary SchoolElementary · 367 students
Other Cooper Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Cooper Middle. Cooper Middle School is the largest of the 5.
- Cooper MiddleMcLean, VA · 997 students
- Cooper Middle SchoolBuffalo Grove, IL · 732 students
- Cooper MiddleFresno, CA · 538 students
- Cooper Middle SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 501 students
Nearby schools
- Clarkdale Elementary School0.1 mi · 785
- Garrett Middle School1.1 mi · 891
- South Cobb High School1.5 mi · 2,081
- Austell Elementary School1.8 mi · 367
- Sanders Elementary School2.1 mi · 626
- Hendricks Elementary School2.5 mi · 538
Frequently asked questions
About Cooper Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cooper Middle School?
Cooper Middle School enrolls approximately 1,000 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Cooper Middle School serve?
Cooper Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cooper Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cooper Middle School is approximately 15.8:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cooper Middle School?
At Cooper Middle School, the student body is approximately 5% White, 26% Hispanic, 64% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Cooper Middle School in?
Cooper Middle School is part of Cobb County.
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