Northeast Middle School

Located at 3021 Fulwood Rd, in Tifton, Georgia, Northeast Middle School is an average-sized middle school that educates 733 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Tift County.

Within Tift County, which oversees 11 schools and 7,471 students, Northeast Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Northeast Middle School logs that 38% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% White, 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Northeast Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northeast Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tift County put the typical household earns roughly $53,255 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Northeast Middle School is one of 11 public schools in Tift County (combined enrollment of about 7,471 students).

Len Lastinger Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northeast Middle School. On composite proficiency, Northeast Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northeast Middle School has climbed 29%, going from 568 students in 2018 to 733 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 45% to 36%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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