Spirit Creek Middle School

Spirit Creek Middle School is one of the tight-knit junior highs in Hephzibah, Georgia, overseen by Richmond County, with 530 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 763.

Richmond County comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 30,573 students; Spirit Creek Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Spirit Creek Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Spirit Creek Middle School lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Spirit Creek Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Spirit Creek Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 29.1%; Spirit Creek Middle School posts 7.5%, -21.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Richmond County indicate the typical household earns roughly $55,637 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Richmond County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,674 students), of which Spirit Creek Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Diamond Lakes Elementary School, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spirit Creek Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 13.2%.

Spirit Creek Middle School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Spirit Creek Middle School has contracted 7%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 530 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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