Saint Marys Middle School

Saint Marys Middle School is a middle school of mid-sized scale in Saint Marys, Georgia, operated by Camden County, educateing 1,077 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 41% bigger than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.

Camden County comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 9,754 students; Saint Marys Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Saint Marys Middle School reports that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 20% Black, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Saint Marys Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Saint Marys Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 55.7%, a residual of +2.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,378 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Camden County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,754 students), Saint Marys Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mary Lee Clark Elementary School, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Saint Marys Middle School. On composite proficiency, Saint Marys Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Saint Marys Middle School's enrollment has expanded 12% since 2018, when it stood at 963 (now 1,077).

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