Public school / Middle
South Forsyth Middle School
Cumming, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130222002262
- District
- Forsyth County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Forsyth Middle School is a public middle school in Cumming, Georgia, run by Forsyth County. It enrols 1,411 students — the 4274th 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
1,411
Teachers
74.0
Students per teacher
19.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
3.3%
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 Forsyth 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.
- 1Lambert High School3,007 students
- 2Denmark High School2,459 students
- 3South Forsyth High School2,443 students
- 4West Forsyth High School2,405 students
- 5Forsyth Central High School2,372 students
- 6North Forsyth High School2,065 students
- 7Sawnee Elementary School1,720 students
- 8Riverwatch Middle School1,537 students
- Enrollment+113.8%
- Teachers+60.9%
- Students per teacher+33.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−95.2%
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