Crawford Long Middle School

Crawford Long Middle School operates as a compact 6-8 campus in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 627 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Crawford Long Middle School is one of 87 schools operated by Atlanta Public Schools, a district that hosts 49,945 students overall.

Demographically, Crawford Long Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). Other groups include 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Crawford Long Middle School has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Crawford Long Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Crawford Long Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 11.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fulton County) shows that median household income runs about $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Crawford Long Middle School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crawford Long Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 21.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Crawford Long Middle School's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 723 (now 627). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 91% to 87%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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