Public school / Middle
Waycross Middle School
Waycross, Georgia
- NCES ID
- 130543002204
- District
- Ware County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Waycross Middle School is a public middle school in Waycross, Georgia, run by Ware County. It enrols 583 students — the 28324th 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
583
Teachers
47.0
Students per teacher
12.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
86.3%
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 Ware 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.
- 1Ware County High School1,589 students
- 2Wacona Elementary School937 students
- 3Ware County Middle School783 students
- 4Waycross Middle School583 students
- 5Center Elementary School480 students
- 6Waresboro Elementary School443 students
- 7Williams Heights Elementary School426 students
- 8Ruskin Elementary School379 students
- Enrollment−11.7%
- Teachers+2.2%
- Students per teacher−13.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+25.9%
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