Enrollment
82
Middle
DISTRICT 113 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·STEWART COUNTY·NCES 130459002431
Stewart County Middle School
15582 Ga Highway 27, Lumpkin, GA 31815 · (229) 838-4374 · Stewart County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL82 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of Georgia public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
13.0:1
6 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
82 students
DISTRICT 96% · STATE 74%
Community
0
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 | 25 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 22 | 27% |
| Grade 8 | 35 | 43% |
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 15% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Stewart County Middle School→Stewart County High School
Feeds from
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
25.0%
GA avg 40.1% . -5.5pp since 2021
Math
23.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +7.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.0% | 23.8% |
| 2023-24 | 29.8% | 25.5% |
| 2022-23 | 23.8% | 29.9% |
| 2021-22 | 30.4% | 16.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.
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 Stewart County Middle School
Stewart County Middle School's state test result (20.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart County Middle School this school | 82 | 100.0% | 20.5% |
| Calhoun County Middle School Edison | 90 | 100.0% | 12.0% |
| Liberation Academy College Park | 132 | 97.7% | N/A |
| Randolph County Middle School Cuthbert | 139 | 100.0% | 19.2% |
| Hancock Central Middle School Sparta | 160 | 100.0% | 7.5% |
| Warren County Middle School Warrenton | 160 | 100.0% | 11.5% |
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 Stewart County Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 82 | #485 of 487 |
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
82
-33 (-29%) vs 2020
-53% since 2000-01, when it was 173
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 82 | 6.3 | 13.0:1 | 100% (82) |
| 2023-24 | 96 | 10.4 | 9.2:1 | 100% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 96 | 8 | 12.0:1 | 100% (96) |
| 2020-21 | 115 | 9 | 12.8:1 | 97% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 104 | 9.7 | 10.7:1 | 100% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 107 | 7 | 15.3:1 | 97% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 135 | 8 | 16.9:1 | 89% (120) |
| 2000-01 | 173 | 11 | 15.7:1 | 85% (147) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stewart County Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (104 to 82); teachers down 35% (9.7 to 6.3).
About Stewart County Middle School
A very small middle-grades school in Lumpkin, Georgia, Stewart County Middle School is part of Stewart County. It has an enrollment of 82 students in grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 763 students for middle schools in Georgia.
Stewart County has 338 students in 3 schools, and Stewart County Middle School is one of those schools.
The share of students at Stewart County Middle School who are Black is 95%. Other students are 2% multiracial. By comparison, Stewart County residents are about 68% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 9, compared with 70 nationally.
Stewart County Middle School reports a ratio of 13.0 students per teacher, from 6.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 13.0:1 compares with an average of 14.1:1 for middle schools in Georgia. Lunch program data show 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Stewart County Middle School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 20% of Georgia public middle schools.
Stewart County Middle School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 20.5%, compared with a predicted 25.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Georgia schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Stewart County, the median household earns about $33,250 a year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 17% of people live in poverty. Stewart County has 3 public schools with about 338 students, including Stewart County Middle School.
Stewart County Middle School's nearest public school is Stewart County Elementary School (less than a tenth of a mile). Inside a five-mile radius, there are 2 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 30.4%; Stewart County Middle School's is 20.5%, ranking 8th of 9.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Stewart County Middle School had a net loss of 33 students, or 29%.
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Stewart County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,869
Census ACS
Median income
$33,250
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
13%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
3
338 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Stewart County
- Stewart County Elementary SchoolElementary · 142 students
- Stewart County High SchoolHigh · 114 students
Other schools in Lumpkin
- Stewart County Elementary SchoolElementary · 142 students
- Stewart County High SchoolHigh · 114 students
Other Stewart County Middle schools
One other US public school is named Stewart County Middle. Stewart County Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Stewart County Middle SchoolDover, TN · 439 students
Nearby schools
- Stewart County Elementary School0.0 mi · 142
- Stewart County High School0.0 mi · 114
- Webster County High School12.4 mi · 58
- Webster County Elementary/Middle School12.4 mi · 170
- Chattahoochee County Education Center17.2 mi · 285
- Chattahoochee County Middle School18.0 mi · 199
Frequently asked questions
About Stewart County Middle SchoolHow many students attend Stewart County Middle School?
Stewart County Middle School enrolls approximately 82 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Stewart County Middle School serve?
Stewart County Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Stewart County Middle School?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Stewart County Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Stewart County Middle School?
Student demographics at Stewart County Middle School are roughly 1% White, 95% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Stewart County Middle School in?
Stewart County Middle School is part of Stewart County.
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