DeRenne Middle School

DeRenne Middle School is a middle-grades school of cozy scale in Savannah, Georgia, run under Savannah-Chatham County, caters to 484 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.

Savannah-Chatham County runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 36,355 students. DeRenne Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, DeRenne Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%); the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Chatham County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, DeRenne Middle School shows 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at DeRenne Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Chatham County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, DeRenne Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 28.8%; this one comes in at 9.9%, -18.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Chatham County) logs that median household income runs about $71,097, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Chatham County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), of which DeRenne Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Savannah-Chatham E-Learning Academy, roughly 0.2 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), DeRenne Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. DeRenne Middle School's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 651 (now 484). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 2% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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