Eagle's Landing Middle School

Eagle's Landing Middle School operates as a mid-tier middle school in McDonough, Georgia, operated by Henry County. Current enrollment sits at 974 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 28% above the state mean of about 763.

Within Henry County, which oversees 53 schools and 43,012 students, Eagle's Landing Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eagle's Landing Middle School lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest reads as 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Henry County as a whole is about 52% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at Eagle's Landing 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 Henry County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Eagle's Landing Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.0%; actual is 21.9%, a gap of -18.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Henry County put median household earnings sit near $83,146, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Henry County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,102 students), of which Eagle's Landing Middle School is one.

Eagle's Landing High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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), Eagle's Landing Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eagle's Landing Middle School has stayed largely flat, going from 993 students in 2018 to 974 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 10% to 3%.

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