West Chatham Middle School

Located at 800 Pine Barren Rd, in Pooler, Georgia, West Chatham Middle School is a reasonably sized intermediate school that serves 713 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Savannah-Chatham County.

Savannah-Chatham County runs 58 schools in total, collectively educating 36,355 students. West Chatham Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Chatham Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 19% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.1:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at West Chatham Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, West Chatham Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Georgia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.0%; West Chatham Middle School posts 18.0%, -19.0 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Chatham County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,097 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Chatham County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students), West Chatham Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: West Chatham Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Chatham Middle School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. West Chatham Middle School's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 833 (now 713). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 15% to 25%.

In the discussion threads here, members of the West Chatham Middle School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.