Waycross Middle School

Waycross Middle School, a small intermediate school in Waycross, Georgia, run under Ware County, serves 606 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 763 students each, so Waycross Middle School sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

Ware County runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,920 students. Waycross Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Waycross Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 37% White, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Ware County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Waycross Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Waycross Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Ware County put median household income runs about $47,448, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ware County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,927 students), Waycross Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Williams Heights Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Waycross Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Waycross Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.3%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 578 students in 2018 compared to 606 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 42% to 37%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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