Elbert County Middle School

Elbert County Middle School is one of the mid-sized middle schools in Elberton, Georgia, run under Elbert County, with 650 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Elbert County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,007 students; Elbert County Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Elbert County Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 37% Black, 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Elbert County Middle School has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. The state averages about 14.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at Elbert County Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elbert County Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 28.6%.

Around the school, census data for Elbert County shows median household income runs about $58,450, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Elbert County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,007 students), Elbert County Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Elbert County Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elbert County Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 872 students in 2018 compared to 650 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 54% to 44%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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