Myers Middle School

Myers Middle School is a modestly sized intermediate school in Savannah, Georgia, operated by Savannah-Chatham County. The school caters to 503 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Myers Middle School sits 34% leaner than that benchmark.

Savannah-Chatham County runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 36,355 students. Myers Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Myers Middle School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Chatham County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Myers Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Chatham County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Myers Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.2%; this one comes in at 9.9%, -19.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Chatham County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,097 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Chatham County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), Myers Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Johnson High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Myers Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Myers Middle School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 552 (now 503). Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 12% across the same window.

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