Franklin County Middle School

Franklin County Middle School is an average-sized junior high in Carnesville, Georgia, operated by Franklin County. The school hosts 805 students in grades 6 through 8.

Franklin County comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,577 students; Franklin County Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Franklin County Middle School records that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Franklin County Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.9%; this one delivers 39.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Franklin County put median household income runs about $53,046, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Franklin County Middle School is one of 5 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 3,577 students).

Nearest neighbor: Carnesville Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Franklin County Middle School. On composite proficiency, Franklin County Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 842 students in 2018 compared to 805 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 76% to 68%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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