Midtown High School

Midtown High School is one of the well-populated high schools in Atlanta, Georgia, part of Atlanta Public Schools, with 1,696 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 51% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; Midtown High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Midtown High School logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Midtown High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 61.1%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Fulton County shows median household income runs about $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Midtown High School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

The closest other public school is Virginia-Highland Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Midtown High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Midtown High School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 52.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Midtown High School's enrollment has rose 27% since 2018, when it stood at 1,332 (now 1,696). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 47% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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