Creekland Middle School

Creekland Middle School is a middle school of expansive scale in Canton, Georgia, part of Cherokee County, serveing 1,503 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 97% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.

Cherokee County comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 42,031 students; Creekland Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Creekland Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at Creekland Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cherokee County (around 37%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Creekland Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cherokee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $108,115 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Cherokee County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,642 students), of which Creekland Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Creekview High School, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Creekland Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.7%.

Creekland Middle School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Creekland Middle School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,546 (now 1,503). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 88% to 79%.

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