Southwest High School

Set in Macon, Georgia, Southwest High School is a close-knit high school, part of Bibb County. It caters to 860 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Bibb County comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 21,334 students; Southwest High School is among them.

On demographics, Southwest High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bibb County (around 61%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southwest High School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.9%; Southwest High School posts 7.8%, -33.0 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Bibb County put median household income runs about $51,234, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Bibb County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,725 students), of which Southwest High School is one.

Hartley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southwest High School. On composite proficiency, Southwest High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 13.7%.

Southwest High School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southwest High School has edged up 4%, going from 830 students in 2018 to 860 in 2025.

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