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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Couch Middle School

Grayson, Georgia

NCES ID
130255003917
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Couch Middle School is a public middle school in Grayson, Georgia, run by Gwinnett County. It enrols 1,087 students — the 7197th largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

1,087students

7197th nationally, tied with 9

Teachers

65.0FTE

7943rd nationally, tied with 316

Students per teacher

16.7students

62246th nationally, tied with 725

Free or reduced-price lunch

49.2%percent

51323rd nationally, tied with 85

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Gwinnett County

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Brookwood High School3,878 students
  2. 2Peachtree Ridge High School3,300 students
  3. 3Grayson High School3,284 students
  4. 4Parkview High School3,262 students
  5. 5Archer High School3,134 students
  6. 6North Gwinnett High School3,097 students
  7. 7Berkmar High School3,029 students
  8. 8Mill Creek High School2,839 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Georgia median across 2,332 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+64.7%
  • Teachers+41.3%
  • Students per teacher+16.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−28.2%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.