Middle Ridge Elementary School

As a medium-sized K-5 school in Covington, Georgia, Middle Ridge Elementary School teaches 594 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Newton County.

Newton County runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 18,672 students. Middle Ridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Middle Ridge Elementary School reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 14% Hispanic, 13% White, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Middle Ridge Elementary School logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Middle Ridge Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Newton County (around 92%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Middle Ridge Elementary 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 20.2%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Newton County shows median household income runs about $77,179, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Middle Ridge Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Newton County (combined enrollment of about 18,672 students).

Nearest neighbor: Indian Creek Middle School, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Middle Ridge Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

Middle Ridge Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 695 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 71% to 62%.

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