Sandy Springs Middle School

As a medium-sized intermediate school in Atlanta, Georgia, Sandy Springs Middle School enrolls 763 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Fulton County.

Sandy Springs Middle School is one of 107 schools operated by Fulton County, a district that educates 87,563 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Sandy Springs Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 28% Hispanic, 10% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the resource side, The school employs 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Sandy Springs Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Sandy Springs Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sandy Springs 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 37.4%, a residual of +11.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Fulton County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Sandy Springs Middle School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Dunwoody Springs Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sandy Springs Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sandy Springs Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 909 (now 763). White enrollment moved from 19% to 10% across the same window.

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