Dade Middle School

Dade Middle School operates as a compact 6-8 campus in Trenton, Georgia, one of the schools within Dade County. Current enrollment sits at 459 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Dade Middle School sits 40% below that benchmark.

Within Dade County, which oversees 4 schools and 1,988 students, Dade Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Dade Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest reads as 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Dade Middle School reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at Dade Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dade Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.3%.

Across the wider county, Dade County reports that median household income runs about $64,568, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Dade County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,988 students), of which Dade Middle School is one.

Dade Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Dade Middle School. On composite proficiency, Dade Middle School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Dade Middle School's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 459).

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