Griffin Middle School

Griffin Middle School, an average-sized middle-grades school in Smyrna, Georgia, overseen by Cobb County, caters to 991 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 763.

Across the 110 schools in Cobb County (105,738 students total), Griffin Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Griffin Middle School logs that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic, 24% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, On paper, Griffin Middle School has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Griffin Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Griffin Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Griffin Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.9%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cobb County) shows that median household earnings sit near $102,738, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Griffin Middle School is one.

King Springs Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Griffin Middle School. On composite proficiency, Griffin Middle School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Griffin Middle School has edged down 29%, going from 1,403 students in 2018 to 991 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 50% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Griffin Middle School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.