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Enrollment
814
Middle
DISTRICT 922 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FULTON COUNTY·NCES 130228002564
Paul D. West Middle School
2376 Headland Dr, East Point, GA 30344 · (470) 254-8130 · Fulton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL814 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of Georgia public middle schools
- C-Test 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.
- AThree-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
11.6:1
70 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
814 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 | 275 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 279 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 260 | 32% |
Student demographics
53%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
Paul D. West Middle School→Tri-Cities High School
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
24.3%
GA avg 40.1% . +6.8pp since 2021
Math
20.4%
GA avg 44.6% . +14.4pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.3% | 20.4% |
| 2023-24 | 23.5% | 20.1% |
| 2022-23 | 19.4% | 9.5% |
| 2021-22 | 17.5% | 6.0% |
% 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
22.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Paul D. West Middle School
Paul D. West Middle School's state test result (22.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul D. West Middle School this school | 814 | 100.0% | 22.9% |
| Garrett Middle School Austell | 891 | 100.0% | 30.6% |
| Lindley Middle School Mableton | 905 | 100.0% | 31.4% |
| Betty Gray Middle School Mableton | 702 | 99.0% | 33.3% |
| Jonesboro Middle School Jonesboro | 895 | 100.0% | 15.3% |
| Sequoyah Middle School Riverdale | 765 | 100.0% | 18.3% |
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 Paul D. West Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Fulton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #369 of 470 | #23 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.4% | #387 of 474 ▼ 19 | #27 of 35 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #370 of 474 ▲ 16 | #23 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.6pp | #46 of 465 | #4 of 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 814 | #191 of 487 | #17 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #37 of 471 | #10 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.1% | #266 of 471 | #15 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #77 of 479 | #17 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.0% | #282 of 305 | #24 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
814
+3 (+0%) vs 2020
+7% since 2010-11, when it was 761
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 814 | 70 | 11.6:1 | 100% (814) |
| 2023-24 | 804 | 65.5 | 12.3:1 | 100% (804) |
| 2022-23 | 803 | 56.9 | 14.1:1 | 100% (803) |
| 2020-21 | 811 | 64 | 12.7:1 | 100% (811) |
| 2017-18 | 831 | 61.4 | 13.5:1 | 100% (831) |
| 2015-16 | 903 | 61 | 14.8:1 | 100% (900) |
| 2010-11 | 761 | 63 | 12.1:1 | 89% (681) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Paul D. West Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (831 to 814); teachers up 14% (61.4 to 70).
About Paul D. West Middle School
Paul D. West Middle School is a middle school located in East Point, Georgia, in Fulton County. Its enrollment is 814 students, spread over grades 6 through 8.
Within Fulton County, Paul D. West Middle School is one of 107 schools. The district enrolls 87,563 students.
The student body at Paul D. West Middle School is 56% Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 39% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 43%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.
Paul D. West Middle School lists 70 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 11.6 students per teacher. The school's 11.6:1 compares with an average of 14.1:1 for middle schools in Georgia. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 100% of the student body. The gap from the 62% average for public schools in Fulton County is 38 points.
Paul D. West Middle School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 35% of Georgia public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Paul D. West Middle School is 2.8 points below its prediction. Actual: 22.9%. Predicted: 25.7%.
For Fulton County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $95,292, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 59%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 205 public schools in the county, enrolling about 138,270, Paul D. West Middle School among them.
Hamilton E. Holmes Elementary is the nearest public school to Paul D. West Middle School, about 0.5 miles away. Paul D. West Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 20.4%, lower than Paul D. West Middle School's 22.9%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Paul D. West Middle School had 811 students in 2020-21 and 814 in 2024-25, nearly the same. Federal data show the ratio falling from 12.7:1 to 11.6:1.
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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 East Point
- Tri-Cities High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Woodland Middle SchoolMiddle · 937 students
- Hamilton E. Holmes ElementaryElementary · 587 students
- Asa Hilliard Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Brookview Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
- Resurgence Hall Charter SchoolElementary · 408 students
Nearby schools
- Hamilton E. Holmes Elementary0.5 mi · 587
- Conley Hills Elementary School0.5 mi · 377
- Fulton Leadership Academy0.6 mi · 166
- RISE Preparatory Charter School1.0 mi · 313
- Resurgence Hall Middle Academy1.5 mi · 209
- Resurgence Hall Charter School1.6 mi · 408
Frequently asked questions
About Paul D. West Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Paul D. West Middle School?
Paul D. West Middle School enrolls approximately 814 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Paul D. West Middle School serve?
Paul D. West Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Paul D. West Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Paul D. West Middle School is approximately 11.6:1 (70 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Paul D. West Middle School?
At Paul D. West Middle School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 39% Hispanic, 56% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Paul D. West Middle School public or private?
Paul D. West Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fulton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.