LaFayette Middle School

As a small middle school in La Fayette, Georgia, LaFayette Middle School teaches 499 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Walker County. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 763.

Within Walker County, which oversees 15 schools and 8,379 students, LaFayette Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LaFayette Middle School records that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LaFayette Middle School reports 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting LaFayette Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at LaFayette Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Walker County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LaFayette 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 28.9%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Walker County) records that median household income runs about $59,469, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. LaFayette Middle School is one of 18 public schools in Walker County (combined enrollment of about 9,637 students).

The closest other public school is North LaFayette Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LaFayette Middle School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.1%.

LaFayette Middle School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 625 students in 2018 compared to 499 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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