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Eastbrook Middle School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Eastbrook Middle School
Eastbrook Middle School operates as a compact intermediate school in Dalton, Georgia, run under Whitfield County. Current enrollment sits at 624 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Eastbrook Middle School is one of 22 schools operated by Whitfield County, a district that serves 11,942 students overall.
Demographically, Eastbrook Middle School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 20% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Whitfield County as a whole is about 37% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Eastbrook Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible 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 north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Eastbrook Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.1%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Whitfield County put median household income runs about $67,070, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Whitfield County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,570 students), of which Eastbrook Middle School is one.
Antioch Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Eastbrook Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.
Eastbrook Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Eastbrook Middle School's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 688 (now 624).
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