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What tradition at Otwell Middle School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
1,062
Middle
DISTRICT 1,220 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORSYTH COUNTY·NCES 130222000951
Otwell Middle School
605 Tribble Gap Rd, Cumming, GA 30040 · (770) 887-5248 · Forsyth County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,062 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Georgia public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
14.2:1
75 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.1:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
489 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 | 368 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 353 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 341 | 32% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
Otwell Middle School→Forsyth Central High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Forsyth County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
42.9%
GA avg 40.1% . -0.4pp since 2021
Math
49.4%
GA avg 44.6% . -1.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 down about 1 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.9% | 49.4% |
| 2023-24 | 41.7% | 46.5% |
| 2022-23 | 41.8% | 46.4% |
| 2021-22 | 43.3% | 50.8% |
% 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
43.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Otwell Middle School
Otwell Middle School's state test result (43.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otwell Middle School this school | 1,062 | 46.0% | 43.2% |
| Lanier Middle School Sugar Hill | 1,369 | 50.5% | 70.5% |
| Five Forks Middle School Lawrenceville | 1,239 | 48.5% | 69.7% |
| Buford Middle School Buford | 1,426 | 36.7% | 71.0% |
| Coleman Middle School Duluth | 711 | 46.6% | 54.6% |
| Jones Middle School Buford | 1,758 | 43.6% | 68.7% |
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 Otwell Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #171 of 470 | #10 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #155 of 474 ▼ 1 | #11 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #158 of 474 ▲ 29 | #10 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.9pp | #52 of 465 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,062 | #78 of 487 | #8 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #256 of 471 | #1 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.2% | #44 of 471 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.0% | #393 of 479 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #70 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
1,062
-381 (-26%) vs 2020
+56% since 1990-91, when it was 679
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
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 | 1,062 | 74.8 | 14.2:1 | 46% (489) |
| 2023-24 | 1,027 | 74 | 13.9:1 | 49% (504) |
| 2022-23 | 1,034 | 75.2 | 13.8:1 | 44% (460) |
| 2020-21 | 1,443 | 105 | 13.7:1 | 37% (528) |
| 2017-18 | 1,309 | 89.4 | 14.6:1 | 39% (508) |
| 2015-16 | 1,202 | 75 | 16.0:1 | 37% (440) |
| 2010-11 | 816 | 56 | 14.6:1 | 44% (360) |
| 2000-01 | 846 | 55 | 15.4:1 | 15% (129) |
| 1990-91 | 679 | 41 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Otwell Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (1,309 to 1,062); teachers down 16% (89.4 to 74.8).
About Otwell Middle School
Students in Cumming, Georgia, attend Otwell Middle School, a medium-sized middle school. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 1,062 students. The typical figure for middle schools in Georgia is about 763 students.
Across its 42 schools, Forsyth County enrolls 54,864 students. Otwell Middle School is one of those schools.
Otwell Middle School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 38%. Smaller groups are 36% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 5% Black, and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 64% of Forsyth County residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Otwell Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
Federal data list 74.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Otwell Middle School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.2:1. Middle schools in Georgia average about 14.1:1, a similar figure. The lunch program counts 46% of students at Otwell Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 21% average among public schools in Forsyth County.
Otwell Middle School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 35% of Georgia public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 53.5% for a school in Georgia with Otwell Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Otwell Middle School posts 43.2%.
Forsyth County has about 267,287 residents, and median household income is about $143,784, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 3%. Federal data list 42 public schools in Forsyth County, with a combined enrollment of about 54,864.
Cumming Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. Otwell Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 43.2% average proficiency ranks 8th among 9 nearby schools.
The federal government classifies Otwell Middle School's location as Suburb: Large.
Otwell Middle School saw enrollment fall 26% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
267,287
Census ACS
Median income
$143,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
54,864 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Forsyth County
- Lambert High SchoolHigh · 3,249 students
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- Denmark High SchoolHigh · 2,527 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
Other schools in Cumming
- South Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
- West Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,503 students
- Forsyth Central High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- North Forsyth High SchoolHigh · 2,151 students
- Sawnee Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,591 students
- Lakeside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,513 students
Nearby schools
- Cumming Elementary School0.2 mi · 900
- Forsyth Central High School0.2 mi · 2,457
- Alliance Academy for Innovation1.2 mi · 1,145
- Kelly Mill Elementary1.8 mi · 1,104
- George W. Whitlow Elementary2.6 mi · 1,247
- Sawnee Elementary School2.7 mi · 1,591
Frequently asked questions
About Otwell Middle SchoolHow many students attend Otwell Middle School?
Otwell Middle School enrolls approximately 1,062 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Otwell Middle School serve?
Otwell Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Otwell Middle School?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Otwell Middle School.
How diverse is Otwell Middle School?
Otwell Middle School reports a student body of 38% White, 36% Hispanic, 5% Black, 19% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Otwell Middle School in?
Otwell Middle School is part of Forsyth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.