Stewart County Middle School

Located at 15582 Ga Highway 27, in Lumpkin, Georgia, Stewart County Middle School is a minimally staffed middle-grades school that hosts 82 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Stewart County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Stewart County Middle School sits 89% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Stewart County (338 students total), Stewart County Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Stewart County Middle School logs that nearly all students (95%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Stewart County Middle School has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Stewart County Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Stewart County indicate median household earnings sit near $33,250, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Stewart County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 338 students), Stewart County Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Stewart County Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Stewart County Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stewart County Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 30.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 104 students in 2018 compared to 82 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Stewart County Middle School community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.