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Enrollment
809
Middle
DISTRICT 921 · STATE 763
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129000541
Tapp Middle School
3900 Macedonia Rd, Powder Springs, GA 30127 · (770) 222-3758 · Cobb County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL809 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% of Georgia public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
14.9:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 14.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
707 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 258 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 272 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 279 | 34% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
Tapp Middle School→McEachern High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Cobb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
44.4%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.5pp since 2021
Math
44.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +12.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.4% | 44.6% |
| 2023-24 | 43.8% | 41.1% |
| 2022-23 | 46.3% | 37.1% |
| 2021-22 | 39.9% | 32.2% |
% 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
42.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Tapp Middle School
Tapp Middle School's state test result (42.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tapp Middle School this school | 809 | 87.4% | 42.9% |
| Chestnut Log Middle School Douglasville | 719 | 84.0% | 26.9% |
| Edwards Middle School Conyers | 934 | 89.0% | 31.6% |
| Cooper Middle School Austell | 1,000 | 91.7% | 48.8% |
| Stockbridge Middle School Stockbridge | 673 | 81.6% | 17.3% |
| Snellville Middle School Snellville | 820 | 75.9% | 37.8% |
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 Tapp Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #175 of 470 | #18 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #198 of 474 no change | #16 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #142 of 474 ▲ 21 | #15 of 28 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.4pp | #90 of 465 | #6 of 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 809 | #192 of 487 | #19 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #305 of 471 | #11 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #221 of 471 | #21 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.4% | #214 of 479 | #8 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #153 of 305 | #15 of 22 |
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
809
-87 (-10%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 1,419
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 809 | 54.4 | 14.9:1 | 87% (707) |
| 2023-24 | 885 | 57.6 | 15.4:1 | 75% (666) |
| 2022-23 | 873 | 58.6 | 14.9:1 | 66% (575) |
| 2020-21 | 896 | 56 | 16.0:1 | 64% (573) |
| 2017-18 | 901 | 50.5 | 17.8:1 | 67% (607) |
| 2015-16 | 782 | 53 | 14.8:1 | 65% (509) |
| 2010-11 | 642 | 47 | 13.7:1 | 67% (432) |
| 2000-01 | 1,636 | 100 | 16.4:1 | 24% (387) |
| 1990-91 | 1,419 | 79 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tapp Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (901 to 809); teachers up 8% (50.5 to 54.4).
About Tapp Middle School
Powder Springs, Georgia, is home to Tapp Middle School, a mid-sized middle school. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 809 students.
District-wide, Cobb County has 110 schools and 105,738 students.
At Tapp Middle School, 58% of students are Black. The rest of enrollment is 29% Hispanic, 6% White, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Cobb County's population at about 27%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 58%.
Its staff includes 54.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.9 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Georgia, 14.1:1, is lower. Tapp Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 87%. The average for public schools in Cobb County is 53%.
On the allk12 Grade, Tapp Middle School lands at A-, ahead of 80% of Georgia public middle schools.
Tapp Middle School is 10.7 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (42.9% versus 32.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Georgia.
In Cobb County, home to about 775,208 people, median household income comes to about $102,738, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 51%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 129 public schools in the county, enrolling about 116,609, Tapp Middle School among them.
About 0.7 miles separate Tapp Middle School from the closest public school, Compton Elementary School. The five-mile area around Tapp Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Tapp Middle School comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Tapp Middle School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 809, compared with 896 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 16.0:1 to 14.9:1.
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Cobb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
775,208
Census ACS
Median income
$102,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
116,609 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cobb County
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 3,085 students
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Pebblebrook High SchoolHigh · 2,574 students
- North Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,463 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
Other schools in Powder Springs
- Hillgrove High SchoolHigh · 2,282 students
- McEachern High SchoolHigh · 2,175 students
- Lovinggood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,209 students
- Kemp Elementary SchoolElementary · 894 students
- Powder Springs Elementary SchoolElementary · 805 students
- Still Elementary SchoolElementary · 755 students
Nearby schools
- Compton Elementary School0.7 mi · 593
- McEachern High School1.5 mi · 2,175
- Powder Springs Elementary School1.7 mi · 805
- Varner Elementary School1.9 mi · 705
- Miles Ahead Charter School2.1 mi · 261
- Dowell Elementary School2.7 mi · 898
Frequently asked questions
About Tapp Middle SchoolHow many students attend Tapp Middle School?
Tapp Middle School enrolls approximately 809 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Tapp Middle School serve?
Tapp Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Tapp Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Tapp Middle School is approximately 14.9:1 (54 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Tapp Middle School?
At Tapp Middle School, the student body is approximately 6% White, 29% Hispanic, 58% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Tapp Middle School?
Tapp Middle School is overseen by Cobb County in Cobb County.
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