Harlem Middle School

Harlem Middle School, an average-sized middle school in Harlem, Georgia, run under Columbia County, serves 1,025 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 34% bigger than the state mean of about 763.

Columbia County comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 28,964 students; Harlem Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Harlem Middle School reports that White students make up the majority at 63%; the rest reads as 20% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Harlem Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 45% 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), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Harlem Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.2%; actual is 36.9%, a gap of -17.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Columbia County put median household income runs about $95,592, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Columbia County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,518 students), of which Harlem Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harlem High School, around 1.3 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harlem Middle School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

Harlem Middle School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Harlem Middle School's enrollment has edged up 29% since 2018, when it stood at 792 (now 1,025). White enrollment moved from 70% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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