Twiggs Middle School

Twiggs Middle School is an intermediate school of rural-scale scale in Jeffersonville, Georgia, one of the schools within Twiggs County, teacheing 140 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 82% leaner than the state mean of about 763.

Twiggs Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Twiggs County, a district that educates 726 students overall.

Demographically, Twiggs Middle School records that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 29% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Twiggs Middle School lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Twiggs County's rate of about 90%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Twiggs Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 17.5%, a residual of -8.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Twiggs County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,324 per year, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Twiggs County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 726 students), Twiggs Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Twiggs County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Twiggs Middle School. On composite proficiency, Twiggs Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 20.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Twiggs Middle School's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 160 (now 140). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 0% to 6% over that span.

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