Taylor Road Middle School

Located at 5150 Taylor Rd, in Alpharetta, Georgia, Taylor Road Middle School is a heavily attended middle-grades school that hosts 1,244 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Fulton County. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 763.

Across the 107 schools in Fulton County (87,563 students total), Taylor Road Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Taylor Road Middle School lists that the largest single group is Asian at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% White, 14% Black, 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 8% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fulton County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Taylor Road Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.3%, the actual is 75.3%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,292 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Taylor Road Middle School is one of 205 public schools in Fulton County (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students).

Chattahoochee High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Taylor Road Middle School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 78.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Taylor Road Middle School has declined 7%, going from 1,336 students in 2018 to 1,244 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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