Public school / Middle
South Effingham Middle School
Guyton, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130198001597
- District
- Effingham County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Effingham Middle School is a public middle school in Guyton, Georgia, run by Effingham County. It enrols 1,097 students — the 7073rd 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
1,097
Teachers
74.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
32.3%
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 Effingham 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.
- 1Effingham County High School2,108 students
- 2South Effingham High School1,888 students
- 3South Effingham Middle School1,097 students
- 4Effingham County Middle School1,064 students
- 5Rincon Elementary School1,047 students
- 6Ebenezer Elementary School948 students
- 7Ebenezer Middle School934 students
- 8Blandford Elementary School915 students
- Enrollment+66.2%
- Teachers+60.9%
- Students per teacher+3.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−52.9%
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