Lovinggood Middle School

Lovinggood Middle School is one of the heavily attended middle-grades schools in Powder Springs, Georgia, operated by Cobb County, with 1,209 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 58% bigger than the state mean of about 763.

Across the 110 schools in Cobb County (105,738 students total), Lovinggood Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Lovinggood Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 31% Black, 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 49% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Lovinggood Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at Lovinggood Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cobb County (around 53%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lovinggood Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.6%; this one delivers 63.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Cobb County shows median household earnings sit near $102,738, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Cobb County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), of which Lovinggood Middle School is one.

Hillgrove High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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 Lovinggood Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lovinggood Middle School's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,374 (now 1,209). Over the same period, the White share fell from 45% to 41%.

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