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Oglethorpe County Middle School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Oglethorpe County Middle School
Set in Crawford, Georgia, Oglethorpe County Middle School is a tight-knit middle-grades school, one of the schools within Oglethorpe County. It educates 523 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Oglethorpe County Middle School sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.
Across the 4 schools in Oglethorpe County (2,293 students total), Oglethorpe County Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Oglethorpe County Middle School lists that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest comes out to 18% Black, 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Oglethorpe County Middle School lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Oglethorpe County Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oglethorpe County Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.6%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Oglethorpe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,034 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oglethorpe County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,293 students), of which Oglethorpe County Middle School is one.
Oglethorpe County Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oglethorpe County Middle School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.
Oglethorpe County Middle School operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oglethorpe County Middle School has changed only slightly, going from 514 students in 2018 to 523 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 66% to 61%.
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Oglethorpe County at a glance
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- Oglethorpe County High SchoolHigh · 690 students
- Oglethorpe County Primary SchoolElementary · 559 students
- Oglethorpe County Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Oglethorpe County Primary School0.3 mi · 559
- Oglethorpe County Elementary School0.4 mi · 521
- Oglethorpe County High School1.2 mi · 690
- Winterville Elementary School11.6 mi · 343
- Whit Davis Road Elementary School12.0 mi · 395
- Colbert Elementary School12.1 mi · 443