Macon Middle School

Macon Middle School, a reasonably sized junior high in Franklin, North Carolina, operated by Macon County Schools, enrolls 576 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Across the 12 schools in Macon County Schools (4,469 students total), Macon Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Macon Middle School lists that 70% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 26% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Macon County's rate of about 82%.

After controlling for student poverty, Macon Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Macon County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,061 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Macon County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,469 students), Macon Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mountain View Intermediate, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Macon Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Macon Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.7%.

Macon Middle School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Macon Middle School has expanded 3%, going from 561 students in 2018 to 576 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 18% to 26%.

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