Lincoln County Middle School, Lincolnton GA

Original Research by School Decision on Lincoln County Middle School

Lincoln County Middle School serves all of the district's sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in and around Lincolnton, a small rural county seat anchored by a historic courthouse and nearby Clarks Hill Lake. The school sits in an economy resting on health care, education, timber logging, light manufacturing, and lake tourism, with the county positioned to benefit from the nearby Fort Gordon cyber sector.

The school's test results show strength in math and a clear area of need in reading and language arts. On the most recent state assessment, math proficiency across all three grades sits just above the midpoint, with eighth grade performing noticeably better than sixth and seventh. Reading proficiency is substantially lower across the board, and science and social studies proficiency at the eighth grade are in the low-to-mid range. A parent may want to look into what the school is doing to address reading instruction and whether the school has specific supports in place for sixth graders, who show the lowest proficiency in reading of any grade in the building.

The student body is small for a middle school, with about a quarter fewer students than many schools in its grade band nationally. About two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating substantial economic need in the attendance zone. The enrollment is about two-thirds white and just over one-quarter Black, with very few other ethnic groups represented. Data on special education enrollment and English learners were not available.

Lincolnton itself is experiencing minimal population change and does not show signs of rapid residential growth. Housing values are modest by national standards and somewhat below the state average, suggesting affordability relative to the wider region. The local economic context shows moderate stability with health care, educational services, and manufacturing as the primary employment sectors. State testing data and prior-year comparisons for this school were not available, so it is not possible to determine whether proficiency is stable, improving, or declining; a parent interested in that trend line would want to ask the school directly about performance over the past several years.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 30 pts above state median

Grade 758%

School 58% · District 58%

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 864%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 22 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 640%

School 40% · District 40%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 45%

▲ 10 pts above state median

Science

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 42%

▲ 16 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 42%

▲ 11 pts above state median

This schoolLincoln 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 5Lower-income94%Higher-income100%6 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income30%Higher-income62%32 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income32%Higher-income69%37 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income68%22 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income35%Higher-income66%31 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income95%Higher-income100%5 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income42%Higher-income68%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income32%Higher-income86%55 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income60%Higher-income84%24 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income44%Higher-income79%35 pp gap