Public school / Middle
Sandy Springs Middle School
Atlanta, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130228000975
- District
- Fulton County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sandy Springs Middle School is a public middle school in Atlanta, Georgia, run by Fulton County. It enrols 821 students — the 13386th 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
821
Teachers
61.0
Students per teacher
13.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
59.4%
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 Fulton 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.
- 1Westlake High School2,461 students
- 2Alpharetta High School2,174 students
- 3Roswell High School2,119 students
- 4Milton High School2,038 students
- 5Langston Hughes High School1,964 students
- 6Johns Creek High School1,930 students
- 7Chattahoochee High School1,852 students
- 8Centennial High School1,788 students
- Enrollment+24.4%
- Teachers+32.6%
- Students per teacher−5.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−13.3%
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