Portal Middle/High School

Set in Portal, Georgia, Portal Middle/High School is a small four-year high school, part of Bulloch County. It hosts 523 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% leaner than the state mean of about 1,120.

Portal Middle/High School is one of 15 schools operated by Bulloch County, a district that works with 10,999 students overall.

On demographics, Portal Middle/High School reports that White students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder looks like 28% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Portal Middle/High School shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at Portal Middle/High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Portal Middle/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bulloch County) records that median household earnings sit near $58,810, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Portal Middle/High School is one of 16 public schools in Bulloch County (combined enrollment of about 11,194 students).

Portal Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Portal Middle/High School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Portal Middle/High School's enrollment has ticked up 13% since 2018, when it stood at 462 (now 523).

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