Temple High School

As a close-knit high school in Temple, Georgia, Temple High School teaches 868 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Carroll County. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Temple High School sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Carroll County comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 16,400 students; Temple High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Temple High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 20% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Temple High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Carroll County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Temple High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 58.4%; actual is 34.2%, a gap of -24.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Carroll County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,714 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Carroll County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,250 students), Temple High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Temple Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Temple High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Temple High School's enrollment has ticked up 33% since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 868). The White share of enrollment declined from 70% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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