Dooly County Middle School

Dooly County Middle School is an intermediate school of very small scale in Pinehurst, Georgia, overseen by Dooly County, teacheing 229 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Dooly County Middle School sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

Dooly County comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,067 students; Dooly County Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Dooly County Middle School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 7% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dooly County as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Dooly County Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Dooly 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 14.5%, a residual of -11.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dooly County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,987, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dooly County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,067 students), of which Dooly County Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Dooly County Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Dooly County Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 266 students in 2018 compared to 229 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.