Jeff Davis Middle School

Set in Hazlehurst, Georgia, Jeff Davis Middle School is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus, one of the schools within Jeff Davis County. It serves 675 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within Jeff Davis County, which oversees 4 schools and 3,074 students, Jeff Davis Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Jeff Davis Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jeff Davis County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Jeff Davis Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jeff Davis Middle School sits in the top 10% of Georgia schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 25.7%; actual is 44.3%, +18.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jeff Davis County indicate median household earnings sit near $40,283, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Jeff Davis County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,074 students), of which Jeff Davis Middle School is one.

Jeff Davis High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jeff Davis Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.8%.

Jeff Davis Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Jeff Davis Middle School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 688 (now 675). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 61% to 57%.

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