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Screven County Middle School
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Screven County Middle School
Screven County Middle School is one of the close-knit intermediate schools in Sylvania, Georgia, one of the schools within Screven County, with 452 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Screven County Middle School sits 41% below that benchmark.
Screven County Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Screven County, a district that educates 2,066 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Screven County Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 44% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Screven County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, Screven County Middle School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 81% 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, Screven County Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.4%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Screven County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,792 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Screven County Middle School is one of 3 public schools in Screven County (combined enrollment of about 2,066 students).
The closest other public school is Screven County High School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Screven County Middle School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. Screven County Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 508 (now 452). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.
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Screven County at a glance
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