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Midway Middle School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Midway Middle School
Midway Middle School is one of the medium-sized middle schools in Midway, Georgia, overseen by Liberty County, with 750 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.
Within Liberty County, which oversees 12 schools and 10,925 students, Midway Middle School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Midway Middle School reports that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 33% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Liberty County's rate of about 89%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Midway Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.5%.
In the area at large, census data for Liberty County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,456 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Midway Middle School is one of 12 public schools in Liberty County (combined enrollment of about 10,925 students).
Nearest neighbor: Liberty Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Midway Middle School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 40.0%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midway Middle School has stayed largely flat, going from 746 students in 2018 to 750 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.
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