Tapp Middle School

Located at 3900 Macedonia Rd, in Powder Springs, Georgia, Tapp Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack middle school that educates 809 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Cobb County.

Cobb County comprises 110 schools with combined enrollment of 105,738 students; Tapp Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Tapp Middle School reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 6% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Cobb County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Tapp Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Cobb County's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, Tapp Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.2%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the broader community, Cobb County reports that median household earnings sit near $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Cobb County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students), Tapp Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Compton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tapp Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.6%.

Tapp Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 901 students in 2018 compared to 809 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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