Ware County Middle School

As a mid-sized middle school in Waycross, Georgia, Ware County Middle School serves 752 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Ware County.

Ware County comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,920 students; Ware County Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Ware County Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Ware County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Ware County Middle School has 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ware County Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Ware County shows the typical household earns roughly $47,448 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ware County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,927 students), of which Ware County Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wacona Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. 6 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), Ware County Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ware County Middle School's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 794 (now 752). The White share of enrollment shrank from 63% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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