Gainesville Middle School East

Gainesville Middle School East is one of the mid-sized middle schools in Gainesville, Georgia, operated by Gainesville City, with 896 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Gainesville City comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 8,480 students; Gainesville Middle School East is among them.

On demographics, Gainesville Middle School East reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 18% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 73% 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 Hall County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gainesville Middle School East tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.6%.

Zooming out to the county, Hall County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,901, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hall County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,525 students), of which Gainesville Middle School East is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Holland Leadership Academy, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gainesville Middle School East ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.1%.

Gainesville Middle School East operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gainesville Middle School East has decreased 48%, going from 1,726 students in 2018 to 896 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 62% to 58% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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