Villa Rica Middle

Set in Temple, Georgia, Villa Rica Middle is a close-knit intermediate school, part of Carroll County. It works with 481 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 763.

Villa Rica Middle is one of 24 schools operated by Carroll County, a district that educates 16,400 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Villa Rica Middle shows that the largest single group is Black at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 40% White, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Villa Rica Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.6%; this one comes in at 28.4%, -24.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Carroll County put median household income runs about $73,714, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Villa Rica Middle is one of 28 public schools in Carroll County (combined enrollment of about 22,250 students).

The closest other public school is Providence Elementary School, roughly 3.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Villa Rica Middle. On composite proficiency, Villa Rica Middle comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Villa Rica Middle has changed only slightly, going from 491 students in 2018 to 481 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 53% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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