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Enrollment
528
Middle
DISTRICT 543 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY·NCES 130102002243
Southwest Middle School
6030 Ogeechee Rd, Savannah, GA 31419 · (912) 395-3540 · Chatham County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL528 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Georgia public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-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
12.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
427 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 | 166 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 178 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 184 | 35% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
11.6%
GA avg 40.1% . -0.2pp since 2021
Math
10.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +0.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 12 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 11.6% | 10.8% |
| 2023-24 | 18.6% | 14.0% |
| 2022-23 | 16.9% | 13.2% |
| 2021-22 | 11.8% | 10.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
15.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Southwest Middle School
Southwest Middle School's state test result (15.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Middle School this school | 528 | 80.9% | 15.6% |
| Stockbridge Middle School Stockbridge | 673 | 81.6% | 17.3% |
| Yeager Middle School Douglasville | 529 | 79.2% | 36.7% |
| West Chatham Middle School Pooler | 713 | 78.1% | 18.0% |
| Chestnut Log Middle School Douglasville | 719 | 84.0% | 26.9% |
| Stewart Middle School Douglasville | 533 | 86.7% | 23.9% |
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 Southwest Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Chatham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #426 of 470 | #5 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.8% | #451 of 474 ▼ 37 | #5 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.6% | #462 of 474 ▼ 29 | #8 of 9 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #399 of 465 | #8 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 528 | #362 of 487 | #4 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #73 of 471 | #4 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.2% | #177 of 471 | #4 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.9% | #249 of 479 | #6 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.3% | #14 of 305 | #2 of 8 |
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
528
-221 (-30%) vs 2020
-47% since 2000-01, when it was 995
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 528 | 42.8 | 12.3:1 | 81% (427) |
| 2023-24 | 712 | 48.1 | 14.8:1 | 77% (551) |
| 2022-23 | 743 | 53 | 14.0:1 | 83% (616) |
| 2020-21 | 749 | 54 | 13.9:1 | 74% (552) |
| 2017-18 | 768 | 55.2 | 13.9:1 | 63% (482) |
| 2015-16 | 808 | 55 | 14.7:1 | 79% (638) |
| 2010-11 | 687 | 53 | 13.0:1 | 57% (395) |
| 2000-01 | 995 | 56 | 17.8:1 | 32% (321) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Southwest Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (768 to 528); teachers down 22% (55.2 to 42.8).
About Southwest Middle School
Southwest Middle School is a small middle school in Savannah-Chatham County, located in Savannah, Georgia. Enrollment totals 528 students across grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in Georgia enroll around 763, and this school is 31% below that mark.
The Savannah-Chatham County system has 58 schools and 36,355 students.
Federal enrollment data show Southwest Middle School is 58% Black. The next largest groups are 22% Hispanic, 11% White, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. The school's Black share is 19 points above the 39% share among Chatham County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Southwest Middle School is 12.3:1, based on 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Georgia is 14.1:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Southwest Middle School counts 81% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Southwest Middle School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 2% of Georgia public middle schools.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 35.6% for Southwest Middle School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 15.6%. The 20.0-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of Georgia schools.
In Chatham County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $71,097 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Chatham County number 60, with about 36,380 students.
Measured in a straight line, Southwest Elementary School is about 0.2 miles from Southwest Middle School. Within five miles are 3 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Southwest Middle School is 8th of 8 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 30% across 4 years, from 749 in 2020-21 to 528 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 13.9:1 in 2020-21 to 12.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Chatham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
300,879
Census ACS
Median income
$71,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
36,380 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Savannah-Chatham County
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Groves High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- New Hampstead High SchoolHigh · 1,123 students
- New Hampstead K-8 SchoolElementary · 1,118 students
Other schools in Savannah
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- Windsor Forest High SchoolHigh · 1,069 students
- Hesse SchoolElementary · 996 students
- Beach High SchoolHigh · 973 students
Other Southwest Middle schools
14 other US public schools in 10 states are named Southwest Middle. Southwest Middle School is the 10th largest of the 15.
- SOUTHWEST MIDDLEORLANDO, FL · 1,290 students
- Southwest Middle SchoolCharlotte, NC · 1,205 students
- SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOLPALM BAY, FL · 997 students
- SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOLSEARCY, AR · 913 students
- Southwest MiddleGastonia, NC · 832 students
Nearby schools
- Southwest Elementary School0.2 mi · 769
- Georgetown School2.6 mi · 544
- Richmond Hill Primary School5.0 mi · 733
- Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary School5.1 mi · 658
- Richmond Hill Elementary School5.2 mi · 662
- Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School5.3 mi · 216
Frequently asked questions
About Southwest Middle SchoolHow many students attend Southwest Middle School?
Southwest Middle School enrolls approximately 528 students in grades 06-08.
Is Southwest Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Southwest Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Southwest Middle School?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at Southwest Middle School.
How diverse is Southwest Middle School?
Southwest Middle School reports a student body of 11% White, 22% Hispanic, 58% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Southwest Middle School public or private?
Southwest Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Savannah-Chatham County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.