Germantown Middle

Germantown Middle is one of the sprawling intermediate schools in Madison, Mississippi, part of Madison County Schools, with 1,008 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 452 students each, so Germantown Middle sits 123% above that benchmark.

Madison County Schools runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 12,926 students. Germantown Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Germantown Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 39% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Germantown Middle has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Madison County (around 52%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Germantown Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.0%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,441 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Germantown Middle is one of 34 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 16,432 students).

The closest other public school is Germantown High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Germantown Middle at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 78.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Germantown Middle has climbed 4%, going from 965 students in 2018 to 1,008 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 64% to 53% over that span.

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