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Yeager Middle School
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Yeager Middle School
Yeager Middle School, a tight-knit junior high in Douglasville, Georgia, part of Douglas County, hosts 529 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 763 students.
Douglas County comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 25,521 students; Yeager Middle School is among them.
Demographically, Yeager Middle School records that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 27% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Douglas County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Yeager Middle School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.1:1, putting Yeager Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Douglas County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
With demographic context factored in, Yeager Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.7%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,984 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Yeager Middle School is one of 37 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 26,121 students).
Nearest neighbor: Dorsett Shoals Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yeager Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yeager Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.7%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yeager Middle School has fell 3%, going from 544 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 33% to 14% over that span.
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