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What's the most underrated thing about Haralson County Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
757
Middle
DISTRICT 504 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARALSON COUNTY·NCES 130267001639
Haralson County Middle School
2633 Georgia Highway 120, Tallapoosa, GA 30176 · (770) 646-8600 · Haralson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL757 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Georgia public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
750 students
DISTRICT 97% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 262 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 258 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 237 | 31% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Haralson County Middle School→Haralson County High School
Based on grade levels within Haralson County. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
41.0%
GA avg 40.1% . +9.7pp since 2021
Math
57.9%
GA avg 44.6% . +8.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 57.9% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 56.5% |
| 2022-23 | 35.5% | 50.0% |
| 2021-22 | 31.3% | 49.4% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Haralson County Middle School
Haralson County Middle School's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haralson County Middle School this school | 757 | 99.1% | 51.0% |
| Fannin County Middle School Blue Ridge | 638 | 90.6% | 39.7% |
| LaFayette Middle School La Fayette | 499 | 100.0% | 28.9% |
| Brantley County Middle School Nahunta | 493 | 95.1% | 45.7% |
| Stephens County Middle School Toccoa | 848 | 96.7% | 37.4% |
| Chattanooga Valley Middle School Flintstone | 449 | 95.3% | 38.3% |
Matched among Georgia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Haralson County Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #110 of 470 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #98 of 474 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #177 of 474 ▼ 25 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.1pp | #75 of 465 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 757 | #225 of 487 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #171 of 471 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.9% | #450 of 471 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.1% | #153 of 479 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.1% | #305 of 305 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
757
0 (0%) vs 2020
-19% since 2000-01, when it was 930
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 757 | 56.2 | 13.5:1 | 99% (750) |
| 2023-24 | 767 | 57.2 | 13.4:1 | 79% (606) |
| 2022-23 | 772 | 56 | 13.8:1 | 85% (656) |
| 2020-21 | 757 | 54 | 14.0:1 | 71% (537) |
| 2017-18 | 758 | 56.3 | 13.5:1 | 61% (466) |
| 2015-16 | 743 | 57 | 13.0:1 | 55% (407) |
| 2010-11 | 874 | 62 | 14.1:1 | 62% (542) |
| 2000-01 | 930 | 58 | 16.0:1 | 45% (422) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Haralson County Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (758 to 757); teachers unchanged (56.3 to 56.2).
About Haralson County Middle School
Haralson County Middle School is a middle school in Tallapoosa, Georgia, and it is part of Haralson County. School enrollment was 757 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8.
Haralson County has 7 schools and 3,525 students, and Haralson County Middle School is one of those schools.
Haralson County Middle School's enrollment is 91% White. After that, the student body is 3% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. For comparison, Haralson County is about 90% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 17% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 56.2 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.5:1. That matches the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia fairly closely. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 99%. It compares with 69% for public schools in Haralson County.
allk12 grades Haralson County Middle School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Georgia public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Georgia with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 26.2%. Haralson County Middle School posts 51.0%, 24.8 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Haralson County, the median household income is $72,127, roughly 17% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 11 public schools in Haralson County, enrolling about 5,867 students in all.
Haralson County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles away. The five-mile area around Haralson County Middle School holds 7 other public schools. Haralson County Middle School's average proficiency of 51.0% compares with 57.4% for its nearest scored neighbors.
In the federal locale system, Haralson County Middle School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment at Haralson County Middle School was 757 in 2020-21 and 757 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
If you have questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Haralson County Middle School, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Haralson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
31,285
Census ACS
Median income
$72,127
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
5,867 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Haralson County
- Haralson County High SchoolHigh · 1,001 students
- Tallapoosa Primary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- Buchanan Primary SchoolElementary · 476 students
- West Haralson Elementary SchoolElementary · 403 students
- Buchanan Elementary SchoolElementary · 377 students
- Haralson County Rebel AcademyHigh · 24 students
Other schools in Tallapoosa
- Haralson County High SchoolHigh · 1,001 students
- Tallapoosa Primary SchoolElementary · 487 students
- West Haralson Elementary SchoolElementary · 403 students
- Haralson County Rebel AcademyHigh · 24 students
Nearby schools
- Haralson County High School1.5 mi · 1,001
- Haralson County Rebel Academy1.5 mi · 24
- Buchanan Primary School3.0 mi · 476
- Buchanan Elementary School3.2 mi · 377
- Tallapoosa Primary School3.5 mi · 487
- West Haralson Elementary School4.5 mi · 403
Frequently asked questions
About Haralson County Middle SchoolHow many students attend Haralson County Middle School?
Haralson County Middle School enrolls approximately 757 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Haralson County Middle School serve?
Haralson County Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Haralson County Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Haralson County Middle School is approximately 13.5:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Haralson County Middle School?
At Haralson County Middle School, the student body is approximately 91% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Haralson County Middle School?
Haralson County Middle School is overseen by Haralson County in Haralson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.