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Glynn Middle School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Glynn Middle School
Glynn Middle School is one of the mid-sized middle-grades schools in Brunswick, Georgia, part of Glynn County, with 735 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.
Across the 17 schools in Glynn County (12,750 students total), Glynn Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Glynn Middle School records that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 27% Black, 19% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Glynn County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Glynn Middle School has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 75% of students at Glynn Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Glynn Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 51.1%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Glynn County indicate median household income runs about $69,799, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Glynn County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,911 students), Glynn Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Glynn Academy, around 0.7 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glynn Middle School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glynn Middle School has contracted 11%, going from 824 students in 2018 to 735 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.
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Glynn County at a glance
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