Southeast Bulloch Middle School, Brooklet GA

Original Research by School Decision on Southeast Bulloch Middle School

Southeast Bulloch Middle School serves grades six through eight in Brooklet, a small rural city in eastern Bulloch County, with about a midsize enrollment for its grade span distributed evenly across the three grades. The school sits within a town that is experiencing deliberate, rapid growth driven by regional economic forces, mainly the Hyundai Metaplant in neighboring Bryan County and Port of Savannah expansion. The town has a reviving downtown core with local shops, and the school complex sits anchored to that center rather than isolated on a distant campus, though Southeast Bulloch itself serves the broader eastern Bulloch County area.

The student body is predominantly White, with a Black and Hispanic population each in the single digits as percentages, and about half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a working-class to lower-middle-class enrollment base. The specific counts for students with individualized education plans or English learners were not reported in available data.

On Georgia's End of Grade assessments, the school's academic performance is mixed. Math proficiency sits in the mid-range across the three grades, with eighth grade performing better than sixth and seventh. English language arts proficiency is notably lower, particularly in seventh grade; the school's overall ELA rate is below the midpoint when measured against the other districts in Bulloch County. Science proficiency in eighth grade was weak, and the school may want to look into the teaching and support structures in that subject. Social studies in eighth grade is the strongest subject tested, with solid proficiency. Against the other districts in Bulloch County, Southeast Bulloch's overall proficiency index ranks in the top quartile, reflecting that the district as a whole is performing below state averages and the school is outperforming its district peers.

The Brooklet area is in the midst of substantial new housing development and infrastructure investment. The city approved massive residential annexations in 2024, bringing up to about several thousand new single-family homes in planned phases over the coming years. New subdivisions like WoodsEdge and Winnie Brook are under way, and the town is installing an expanded municipal sewer system, a third well, and grant-funded water line expansion. Housing values in the area are moderate and stable, with mortgage affordability slightly better than the national benchmark and rent costs in line with regional patterns. The district just raised its property tax millage rate substantially in August 2025, translating to a meaningful annual increase on median-priced homes, a lasting cost consideration for families buying into the area.

At the district level, major infrastructure change is coming. Voters approved a capital referendum in November 2025 that will fund a new Southeast Bulloch High School and a reconfiguration of the feeder system, including converting the existing high school to a middle school and converting the current middle school into early-grade schools. The exact timeline and impact on middle school operations are unclear from available data, but the school is part of a district in transition. The district has also rolled out new Georgia math standards and is implementing Science of Reading literacy instruction across elementary grades, a pedagogy-level change in early reading that will affect students as they transition into middle school.

For a parent or resident considering Southeast Bulloch Middle School, the profile is of a mid-sized, community-embedded school in a town where growth is happening fast and infrastructure is being built to match. Academic performance is workable in math and social studies but lags meaningfully in ELA and science, areas a family might want to monitor and discuss directly with the school. The tuition is zero, but the property tax increase is real and immediate.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 656%

School 56% · District 37% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 753%

School 53% · District 36% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 46% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 651%

School 51% · District 35% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median

Grade 743%

School 43% · District 35% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 37% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

Science

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 29% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 858%

School 58% · District 40% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median

This schoolBulloch County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income31%Higher-income57%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income26%Higher-income50%24 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income76%31 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income34%Higher-income60%26 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income32%Higher-income61%28 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income27%Higher-income52%25 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income52%Higher-income83%30 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income37%Higher-income64%27 pp gap