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Enrollment
904
Middle
DISTRICT 723 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123003319
Rex Mill Middle School
6380 Evans Dr, Rex, GA 30273 · (770) 960-6559 · Clayton County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL904 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Georgia public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
13.9:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
904 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 317 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 274 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 313 | 35% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
25.5%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.3pp since 2021
Math
28.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +13.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.5% | 28.6% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 23.7% |
| 2022-23 | 25.9% | 20.5% |
| 2021-22 | 21.2% | 14.8% |
% 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
30.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% 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 Rex Mill Middle School
Rex Mill Middle School's state test result (30.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rex Mill Middle School this school | 904 | 100.0% | 30.5% |
| Conyers Middle School Conyers | 943 | 100.0% | 25.4% |
| Jonesboro Middle School Jonesboro | 895 | 100.0% | 15.3% |
| Sequoyah Middle School Riverdale | 765 | 100.0% | 18.3% |
| Pointe South Middle School Jonesboro | 693 | 100.0% | 18.9% |
| M. D. Roberts Middle School Jonesboro | 894 | 100.0% | 29.5% |
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 Rex Mill Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #308 of 470 | #3 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #326 of 474 ▲ 16 | #2 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #361 of 474 ▲ 14 | #2 of 15 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.1pp | #73 of 465 | #1 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 904 | #137 of 487 | #2 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #231 of 471 | #6 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.9% | #319 of 471 | #6 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #36 of 479 | #13 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #51 of 305 | #3 of 13 |
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
904
-228 (-20%) vs 2020
-13% since 2010-11, when it was 1,042
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 904 | 65 | 13.9:1 | 100% (904) |
| 2023-24 | 921 | 64 | 14.4:1 | 88% (811) |
| 2022-23 | 974 | 67 | 14.5:1 | 91% (882) |
| 2020-21 | 1,132 | 68 | 16.6:1 | 93% (1,053) |
| 2017-18 | 1,142 | 64 | 17.8:1 | 99% (1,136) |
| 2015-16 | 1,025 | 60 | 17.1:1 | 100% (1,020) |
| 2010-11 | 1,042 | 66 | 15.8:1 | 80% (833) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rex Mill Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (1,142 to 904); teachers up 2% (64 to 65).
About Rex Mill Middle School
Rex Mill Middle School is a mid-sized middle school for students in Rex, Georgia. It has an enrollment of 904 students in grades 6 through 8.
Clayton County includes 68 schools. Together they enroll 51,326 students.
More than half of the students at Rex Mill Middle School are Black (69%). Next come 24% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% White. That is in line with Clayton County, where about 69% of residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 47%.
Staffing at Rex Mill Middle School comes to 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Georgia is similar, at 14.1:1. Rex Mill Middle School counts 100% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Rex Mill Middle School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 53% of Georgia public middle schools.
Compared with Georgia schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Rex Mill Middle School's results are 4.8 points above predicted: 30.5% against 25.7%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Clayton County show that median household income comes to about $59,806, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Clayton County counts 73 public schools with about 63,156 students.
Roberta T. Smith Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Rex Mill Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Rex Mill Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 30.5% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 8 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Rex Mill Middle School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 20% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 13.9:1, from 16.6:1.
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Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
Other schools in Rex
- Roberta T. Smith Elementary SchoolElementary · 720 students
- Adamson Middle SchoolMiddle · 509 students
Nearby schools
- Roberta T. Smith Elementary School0.3 mi · 720
- Adamson Middle School0.6 mi · 509
- Mount Zion Elementary School1.8 mi · 491
- Mount Zion Primary1.8 mi · 620
- Utopian Academy for the Arts High School2.0 mi · 291
- Forest Park Middle School2.0 mi · 593
Frequently asked questions
About Rex Mill Middle SchoolHow large is Rex Mill Middle School?
Rex Mill Middle School enrolls approximately 904 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Rex Mill Middle School serve?
Rex Mill Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Rex Mill Middle School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Rex Mill Middle School.
How diverse is Rex Mill Middle School?
Rex Mill Middle School reports a student body of 2% White, 24% Hispanic, 69% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Rex Mill Middle School in?
Rex Mill Middle School is part of Clayton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.