Marion County Middle/High School

Marion County Middle/High School is one of the small high schools in Buena Vista, Georgia, overseen by Marion County, with 687 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 39% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Within Marion County, which oversees 2 schools and 1,293 students, Marion County Middle/High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Marion County Middle/High School logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% Black, 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marion County Middle/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of +2.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household income runs about $51,667, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,293 students), Marion County Middle/High School is one campus in the mix.

L. K. Moss Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.2 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marion County Middle/High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 715 students in 2018 compared to 687 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 12% to 16%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Marion County Middle/High School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.