McNair Middle School

McNair Middle School is one of the moderately sized middle-grades schools in College Park, Georgia, one of the schools within Fulton County, with 727 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 107 schools in Fulton County (87,563 students total), McNair Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, McNair Middle School reports that nearly all students (90%) are Black; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting McNair Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McNair 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 22.6%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Fulton County put median household income runs about $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Fulton County's 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), McNair Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bethune Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McNair Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McNair Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 22.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 799 students in 2018 compared to 727 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 95% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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