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Enrollment
454
Middle
DISTRICT 523 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHITFIELD COUNTY·NCES 130570003465
New Hope Middle School
1111 New Hope Rd NW, Dalton, GA 30720 · (706) 673-2295 · Whitfield County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL454 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of Georgia public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
393 students
DISTRICT 93% · STATE 74%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 148 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 160 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 146 | 32% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
52.3%
GA avg 40.1% . +7.6pp since 2021
Math
57.0%
GA avg 44.6% . +6.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.3% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 53.2% |
| 2022-23 | 49.6% | 50.0% |
| 2021-22 | 44.8% | 50.6% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
52.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Georgia's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like New Hope Middle School
New Hope Middle School's state test result (52.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope Middle School this school | 454 | 86.6% | 52.7% |
| Hilliard A. Wilbanks Middle School Demorest | 566 | 92.4% | 48.3% |
| South Habersham Middle School Cornelia | 456 | 94.5% | 49.0% |
| Calhoun Middle School Calhoun | 573 | 83.4% | 42.2% |
| Atkinson County Middle School Pearson | 336 | 85.7% | 40.9% |
| Red Top Middle School Emerson | 569 | 83.5% | 32.4% |
Matched among Georgia middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where New Hope Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Whitfield County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #97 of 470 | #1 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #102 of 474 ▲ 4 | #2 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #84 of 474 ▲ 7 | #1 of 7 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.0pp | #142 of 465 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 454 | #399 of 487 | #5 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #113 of 471 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.6% | #232 of 471 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.6% | #219 of 479 | #4 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #22 of 305 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
454
-95 (-17%) vs 2020
-19% since 2010-11, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 454 | 35.4 | 12.8:1 | 87% (393) |
| 2023-24 | 440 | 35.4 | 12.4:1 | 75% (328) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 36.9 | 12.3:1 | 61% (274) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | 38 | 14.4:1 | 59% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 615 | 45.5 | 13.5:1 | 65% (401) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 38 | 15.4:1 | 65% (382) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 36 | 15.6:1 | 61% (342) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Hope Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (615 to 454); teachers down 22% (45.5 to 35.4).
About New Hope Middle School
New Hope Middle School operates as a small middle-grades school in Dalton, Georgia. It covers grades 6 through 8, with a total enrollment of 454 students. Enrollment is 40% lower than the average for middle schools in Georgia, which is about 763.
Federal data list 22 schools in Whitfield County, with 11,942 students enrolled.
The most common group at New Hope Middle School is White students, at 47%. Other groups include 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. The county population is about 65% White. New Hope Middle School's diversity index is 57%, against a US figure of 70%.
New Hope Middle School operates with 35.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 12.8:1. On average, middle schools in Georgia have 14.1:1, compared with 12.8:1 here. New Hope Middle School reports 87% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades New Hope Middle School an A. The grade compares the school only with Georgia public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, New Hope Middle School would score about 32.6%. It scores 52.7%, a top-10% result among Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations.
New Hope Middle School is located in Whitfield County, where the median household income is $67,070, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 20%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Besides New Hope Middle School, Whitfield County has 32 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, New Hope Elementary School, is about 0.3 miles away. There are 7 more public schools inside five miles. New Hope Middle School places 2nd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Fringe.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 95 fewer students in 2024-25. The number of students per teacher fell from 14.4 to 12.8 over 4 years.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Whitfield County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
103,598
Census ACS
Median income
$67,070
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
19,570 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Whitfield County
- Southeast Whitfield County High SchoolHigh · 1,453 students
- Northwest Whitfield County High SchoolHigh · 1,098 students
- Coahulla Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- North Whitfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Eastbrook Middle SchoolMiddle · 624 students
- Eastside Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
Other schools in Dalton
- Dalton High SchoolHigh · 1,919 students
- Southeast Whitfield County High SchoolHigh · 1,453 students
- Hammond Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Coahulla Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,041 students
- North Whitfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- City Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 707 students
Other New Hope Middle schools
One other US public school is named New Hope Middle. New Hope Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- New Hope Middle SchoolColumbus, MS · 604 students
Nearby schools
- New Hope Elementary School0.3 mi · 511
- Northwest Whitfield County High School0.7 mi · 1,098
- North Whitfield Middle School2.5 mi · 731
- Varnell Elementary School2.7 mi · 350
- Pleasant Grove Elementary School3.9 mi · 451
- Tunnel Hill Elementary School4.0 mi · 297
Frequently asked questions
About New Hope Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at New Hope Middle School?
New Hope Middle School enrolls approximately 454 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does New Hope Middle School serve?
New Hope Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does New Hope Middle School have?
New Hope Middle School employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
How diverse is New Hope Middle School?
New Hope Middle School reports a student body of 47% White, 46% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is New Hope Middle School public or private?
New Hope Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Whitfield County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.