Oconee County Middle School

Oconee County Middle School is one of the reasonably sized intermediate schools in Watkinsville, Georgia, operated by Oconee County, with 940 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 23% above the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.

Oconee County runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 8,474 students. Oconee County Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Oconee County Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Oconee County Middle School shows 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Oconee County Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 18% of students at Oconee County Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Oconee County Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.9%, the actual is 72.3%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Oconee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $121,217 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Oconee County Middle School is one of 12 public schools in Oconee County (combined enrollment of about 8,474 students).

Nearest neighbor: Oconee County Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oconee County Middle School. On composite proficiency, Oconee County Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 72.7%.

Oconee County Middle School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oconee County Middle School has climbed 11%, going from 845 students in 2018 to 940 in 2025.

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