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Pepperell High School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pepperell High School
Pepperell High School is a four-year high school of small scale in Lindale, Georgia, overseen by Floyd County, hosting 866 students in grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 1,120.
Floyd County runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,949 students. Pepperell High School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Pepperell High School logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Pepperell High School logs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Pepperell High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Floyd County's rate of about 75%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pepperell High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -3.5 points.
In the area at large, Floyd County reports that median household income runs about $65,565, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Floyd County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,383 students), of which Pepperell High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Pepperell Primary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pepperell High School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.
Pepperell High School operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 872 students in 2018 compared to 866 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 81% to 75% over that span.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Floyd County at a glance
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