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What tradition at Northwestern Middle School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
1,167
Middle
DISTRICT 922 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FULTON COUNTY·NCES 130228001631
Northwestern Middle School
12805 Birmingham Hwy, Alpharetta, GA 30004 · (470) 254-2870 · Fulton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,167 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% 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.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
14.1:1
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
129 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 74%
Community
6
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 | 383 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 396 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 388 | 33% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Northwestern Middle School→Milton High School
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from Fulton County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
75.7%
GA avg 40.1% . -0.5pp since 2021
Math
74.5%
GA avg 44.6% . +5.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.7% | 74.5% |
| 2023-24 | 77.8% | 75.1% |
| 2022-23 | 76.2% | 73.6% |
| 2021-22 | 76.2% | 69.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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%.
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 Northwestern Middle School
Northwestern Middle School's state test result (71.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern Middle School this school | 1,167 | 11.1% | 71.9% |
| Hightower Trail Middle School Marietta | 944 | 10.1% | 72.7% |
| Mabry Middle School Marietta | 938 | 14.5% | 70.3% |
| Rising Starr Middle School Fayetteville | 931 | 14.9% | 75.9% |
| Simpson Middle School Marietta | 884 | 19.7% | 69.5% |
| Beacon Hill Middle School Decatur | 1,285 | 15.3% | 75.5% |
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 Northwestern Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.9% | #22 of 470 | #5 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.5% | #34 of 474 ▼ 7 | #6 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #15 of 474 ▼ 3 | #4 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.4pp | #308 of 465 | #31 of 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,167 | #59 of 487 | #6 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #253 of 471 | #29 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.1% | #260 of 471 | #14 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.1% | #472 of 479 | #37 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #138 of 305 | #19 of 26 |
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
1,167
-25 (-2%) vs 2020
-41% since 2000-01, when it was 1,987
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 1,167 | 82.6 | 14.1:1 | 11% (129) |
| 2023-24 | 1,118 | 80.9 | 13.8:1 | 11% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 1,143 | 79.1 | 14.4:1 | 7% (76) |
| 2020-21 | 1,192 | 87 | 13.7:1 | 5% (56) |
| 2017-18 | 1,314 | 85.1 | 15.4:1 | 7% (86) |
| 2015-16 | 1,280 | 87 | 14.7:1 | 7% (95) |
| 2010-11 | 1,263 | 89 | 14.2:1 | 10% (121) |
| 2000-01 | 1,987 | 120 | 16.6:1 | 3% (51) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northwestern Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (1,314 to 1,167); teachers down 3% (85.1 to 82.6).
About Northwestern Middle School
Northwestern Middle School is the name of a large middle school in Alpharetta, Georgia. It enrolls 1,167 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8. That is 53% bigger than the average of about 763 students for middle schools in Georgia.
Northwestern Middle School belongs to Fulton County, a district of 107 schools and 87,563 students.
The largest group at Northwestern Middle School is White students, at 65%. Other groups include 12% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County residents are about 38% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 54%.
Teacher count: 82.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.1:1. The ratio is within a point of the 14.1:1 average for middle schools in Georgia. Roughly 11% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 51 points below the 62% average for public schools in Fulton County.
Northwestern Middle School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 78% of Georgia public middle schools.
Northwestern Middle School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 71.9%, compared with a predicted 71.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Fulton County, median household income comes to about $95,292, roughly 59% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. The county's public schools total 205, with about 138,270 students.
Crabapple Crossing Elementary School sits about 0.2 miles from Northwestern Middle School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 72.4% proficiency; Northwestern Middle School posts 71.9%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 1,192 in 2020-21, 1,167 in 2024-25.
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Fulton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,076,561
Census ACS
Median income
$95,292
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
205
138,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fulton County
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 2,056 students
- Roswell High SchoolHigh · 2,035 students
- Alpharetta High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Milton High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Langston Hughes High SchoolHigh · 1,891 students
- Johns Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,789 students
Other schools in Alpharetta
- Denmark High SchoolHigh · 2,527 students
- Alpharetta High SchoolHigh · 2,024 students
- Milton High SchoolHigh · 1,999 students
- Chattahoochee High SchoolHigh · 1,730 students
- Innovation AcademyHigh · 1,511 students
- DeSana Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,278 students
Other Northwestern Middle schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Northwestern Middle. Northwestern Middle School is the largest of the 8.
- Northwestern Middle SchoolZachary, LA · 841 students
- Northwestern Middle SchoolKokomo, IN · 324 students
- Northwestern MiddlePoplar, WI · 289 students
- Northwestern Middle SchoolWest Salem, OH · 284 students
- Northwestern Middle SchoolAlbion, PA · 266 students
Nearby schools
- Crabapple Crossing Elementary School0.2 mi · 628
- Milton High School0.2 mi · 1,999
- Summit Hill Elementary2.0 mi · 678
- Alpharetta Elementary School2.3 mi · 498
- Sweet Apple Elementary School2.3 mi · 845
- Hembree Springs Elementary School2.5 mi · 536
Frequently asked questions
About Northwestern Middle SchoolHow large is Northwestern Middle School?
Northwestern Middle School enrolls approximately 1,167 students in grades 06-08.
Is Northwestern Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Northwestern Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Northwestern Middle School?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at Northwestern Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Northwestern Middle School?
Student demographics at Northwestern Middle School are roughly 65% White, 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 12% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Northwestern Middle School in?
Northwestern Middle School is part of Fulton County.
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