ATLANTA MIDDLE

ATLANTA MIDDLE is one of the cozy middle schools in ATLANTA, Texas, operated by ATLANTA ISD, with 427 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ATLANTA MIDDLE sits 34% leaner than that benchmark.

ATLANTA ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,929 students; ATLANTA MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, ATLANTA MIDDLE records that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 29% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ATLANTA MIDDLE lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ATLANTA MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ATLANTA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cass County put the typical household earns roughly $53,813 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Cass County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,268 students), ATLANTA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ATLANTA EL, around 1.8 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ATLANTA MIDDLE at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 427 in 2025.

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