Public school / Middle
Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet
Albany, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130183002546
- District
- Dougherty County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet is a public middle school in Albany, Georgia, run by Dougherty County. It enrols 529 students — the 33889th largest of 2,332 public schools in Georgia.
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
529
Teachers
38.0
Students per teacher
13.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
100.0%
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.
Within Dougherty 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.
- 1Westover High School1,360 students
- 2Dougherty Comprehensive High School1,204 students
- 3Monroe High School1,078 students
- 4Radium Springs Middle School919 students
- 5Albany Middle School833 students
- 6Live Oak Elementary School805 students
- 7Merry Acres Middle School764 students
- 8Sherwood Acres Elementary School642 students
- Enrollment−19.8%
- Teachers−17.4%
- Students per teacher−2.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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