Ralph Bunche Middle School

Located at 1925 Niskey Lake Rd SW, in Atlanta, Georgia, Ralph Bunche Middle School is a medium-sized 6-8 campus that educates 651 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Atlanta Public Schools.

Within Atlanta Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 49,945 students, Ralph Bunche Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Ralph Bunche Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ralph Bunche Middle School reports 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Ralph Bunche Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Ralph Bunche Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ralph Bunche Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 19.2%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Fulton County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which Ralph Bunche Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: R. N. Fickett Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ralph Bunche Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.8%.

Ralph Bunche Middle School operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 858 students in 2018 compared to 651 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 98% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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