Dodge County Middle School

As a modestly sized intermediate school in Eastman, Georgia, Dodge County Middle School serves 596 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Dodge County. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 763.

Dodge County runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,659 students. Dodge County Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Dodge County Middle School shows that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 36% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

In terms of school funding signals, Dodge County Middle School logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Dodge County Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Dodge County Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Dodge County shows the typical household earns roughly $51,587 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dodge County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,693 students), Dodge County Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Dodge County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dodge County Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dodge County Middle School has contracted 13%, going from 687 students in 2018 to 596 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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