Jean Childs Young Middle School

As an average-sized intermediate school in Atlanta, Georgia, Jean Childs Young Middle School works with 657 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Atlanta Public Schools.

Atlanta Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 49,945 students. Jean Childs Young Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Jean Childs Young Middle School lists that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the income-and-resources front, Jean Childs Young Middle School lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Jean Childs Young Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jean Childs Young Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 14.2%, a residual of -11.5 points.

In the broader community, Fulton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), Jean Childs Young Middle School is one campus in the mix.

West Manor Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jean Childs Young Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 26.3%.

Jean Childs Young Middle School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 832 students in 2018 compared to 657 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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