Fort Middle School

Fort Middle School is one of the low-enrollment middle-grades schools in Columbus, Georgia, overseen by Muscogee County, with 440 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Fort Middle School sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Muscogee County runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 30,091 students. Fort Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Fort Middle School reports that Black students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 7% White, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

In terms of school funding signals, Fort Middle School lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages about 14.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Muscogee County's rate of about 86%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fort 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 16.9%, a residual of -8.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Muscogee County shows median household earnings sit near $58,073, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Fort Middle School is one of 57 public schools in Muscogee County (combined enrollment of about 30,110 students).

Wesley Heights Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fort Middle School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 16.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Fort Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 544 (now 440). Black enrollment moved from 83% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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