Dalton Jr. High School

Dalton Jr. High School is one of the small junior highs in Dalton, Georgia, one of the schools within Dalton Public Schools, with 517 students on its rolls from grade 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 763.

Dalton Public Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 7,619 students; Dalton Jr. High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Dalton Jr. High School reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 20% White, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

In terms of school funding signals, Dalton Jr. High School records 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Dalton Jr. High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at Dalton Jr. High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Whitfield County (around 83%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Dalton Jr. High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -3.3 points.

Across the wider county, Whitfield County reports that median household income runs about $67,070, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Dalton Jr. High School is one of 33 public schools in Whitfield County (combined enrollment of about 19,570 students).

The Dalton Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dalton Jr. High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dalton Jr. High School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 30.2%.

Dalton Jr. High School operates from an inner-city location.

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