Murphey Middle School

Murphey Middle School is a 6-8 campus of compact scale in Augusta, Georgia, run under Richmond County, enrolling 512 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Murphey Middle School sits 33% below that benchmark.

Within Richmond County, which oversees 52 schools and 30,573 students, Murphey Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Murphey Middle School logs that nearly all students (83%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 56% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Murphey Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.7%; Murphey Middle School posts 7.0%, -18.7 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Richmond County put median household earnings sit near $55,637, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Richmond County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), of which Murphey Middle School is one.

Josey High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Murphey Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Murphey Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 24.5%.

Murphey Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Murphey Middle School has declined 26%, going from 694 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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