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What's the most underrated thing about McDonough Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
876
Middle
DISTRICT 824 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HENRY COUNTY·NCES 130282001206
McDonough Middle School
175 Postmaster Dr, McDonough, GA 30253 · (470) 615-3460 · Henry County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL876 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Georgia public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
690 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 278 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 300 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 298 | 34% |
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
26.1%
GA avg 40.1% . +6.6pp since 2021
Math
18.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +11.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.1% | 18.6% |
| 2023-24 | 21.5% | 13.0% |
| 2022-23 | 22.4% | 11.9% |
| 2021-22 | 19.5% | 7.2% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like McDonough Middle School
McDonough Middle School's state test result (17.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| McDonough Middle School this school | 876 | 78.8% | 17.1% |
| Belair Middle School Augusta | 776 | 82.5% | N/A |
| Factory Shoals Middle School Douglasville | 833 | 77.6% | 30.1% |
| Ballard Hudson Middle School Macon | 671 | 76.6% | 11.6% |
| General Ray Davis Middle School Stockbridge | 874 | 72.2% | 39.1% |
| Appling Middle School Macon | 677 | 73.6% | 10.8% |
Matched among Georgia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where McDonough Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Henry County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #417 of 470 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #400 of 474 ▲ 25 | #8 of 11 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.1% | #354 of 474 ▲ 52 | #9 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.0pp | #78 of 465 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 876 | #158 of 487 | #6 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #464 of 471 | #10 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.4% | #394 of 471 | #12 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.8% | #255 of 479 | #2 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.0% | #31 of 144 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
876
-109 (-11%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 995
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 18.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 876 | 48 | 18.3:1 | 79% (690) |
| 2023-24 | 956 | 46.3 | 20.6:1 | 83% (789) |
| 2022-23 | 954 | 48.5 | 19.7:1 | 66% (633) |
| 2020-21 | 985 | 53 | 18.6:1 | 66% (649) |
| 2017-18 | 724 | 41 | 17.7:1 | 81% (584) |
| 2015-16 | 733 | 49 | 15.0:1 | 82% (601) |
| 2010-11 | 776 | 50 | 15.5:1 | 72% (556) |
| 2000-01 | 996 | 56 | 17.8:1 | 31% (305) |
| 1990-91 | 995 | 65 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for McDonough Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (724 to 876); teachers up 17% (41 to 48).
About McDonough Middle School
Located in McDonough, Georgia, McDonough Middle School is a mid-sized middle school. It reported 876 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25.
McDonough Middle School falls under Henry County, which has 53 schools enrolling 43,012 students.
Black students account for 83% of the school's enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 9% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Henry County, the Black share is about 52%. A diversity index of 30% means there is a 30% chance two randomly chosen students at McDonough Middle School are from different groups.
The school has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 18.3 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Georgia is 14.1:1, so this school has more students per teacher. The school reported 79% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Henry County is 63%.
McDonough Middle School holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 12% of Georgia public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, McDonough Middle School ranks in the bottom 10% of Georgia schools. It scores 17.1%; the prediction is 36.6%.
For the population of Henry County, the median household earns about $83,146 a year, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. McDonough Middle School shares Henry County with 53 other public schools.
McDonough High School is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of McDonough Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 18.0%; McDonough Middle School's is 17.1%, ranking 5th of 6.
In the federal locale system, McDonough Middle School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 876, down from 985 in 2020-21.
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Henry County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
249,960
Census ACS
Median income
$83,146
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
43,102 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Henry County
- Dutchtown HighHigh · 1,821 students
- Union Grove HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Ola High SchoolHigh · 1,586 students
- Eagle's Landing High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- Locust Grove HighHigh · 1,572 students
- Stockbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
Other schools in McDonough
- Union Grove HighHigh · 1,622 students
- Ola High SchoolHigh · 1,586 students
- Eagle's Landing High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- McDonough High SchoolHigh · 1,359 students
- Ola Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,039 students
- Union Grove MiddleMiddle · 1,033 students
Other McDonough Middle schools
One other US public school is named McDonough Middle. McDonough Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- McDonough Middle SchoolHartford, CT · 301 students
Nearby schools
- McDonough High School0.4 mi · 1,359
- Impact Academy Middle School0.7 mi · 339
- Impact Academy High School0.7 mi · 449
- EXCEL Academy0.9 mi · 213
- Wesley Lakes Elementary School2.4 mi · 564
- Walnut Creek Elementary2.5 mi · 712
Frequently asked questions
About McDonough Middle SchoolHow many students attend McDonough Middle School?
McDonough Middle School enrolls approximately 876 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does McDonough Middle School serve?
McDonough Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at McDonough Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at McDonough Middle School is approximately 18.3:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at McDonough Middle School?
At McDonough Middle School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 9% Hispanic, 83% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees McDonough Middle School?
McDonough Middle School is overseen by Henry County in Henry County.
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