Miller County Middle School, Colquitt GA

Original Research by School Decision on Miller County Middle School

Miller County Middle School serves students in grades six through eight in Colquitt, a small rural county seat in southwest Georgia. The school sits in a town anchored by agriculture, regional healthcare, and arts institutions, with a historic downtown square and strong local civic character.

The school has a combined enrollment of about a hundred seventy students, with the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades evenly distributed. About two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is racially mixed, split roughly equally between Black and white students, with smaller populations of Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students. State assessment data for the 2024-25 school year shows consistent weakness across all tested subjects and grade levels. In mathematics, proficiency improves from grade six through eight, but even the strongest grade shows less than half meeting state standards. English language arts proficiency is similarly low across grades. Eighth-grade science and social studies proficiency rates are quite low, representing a substantial academic gap that parents may want to look into further with the school.

The school is a regular public school, not a charter or specialized program. No data on special education enrollment, English learner populations, staffing, discipline, or attendance was available, so readers cannot assess those dimensions of school environment from public records. The school carries the Peace Wall mural as part of the town's Millennium Mural Project, indicating it is woven into the community's public arts identity rather than set apart.

Miller County has only one school district, so comparisons to peer districts in the county are not possible. Housing in the Colquitt area is relatively affordable by national standards, though the town itself is experiencing slow population decline. The median household income for the region is in line with state benchmarks, and most residents own homes rather than rent. The hospital, school district, and local government are the main institutional employers; agriculture remains a backbone of the broader county economy.

A parent considering this school should understand that the academic performance numbers are low across the board and show no recent upward trend. The school serves a real community with civic assets and history, but the test results reflect challenges that warrant direct conversation with school leadership about instruction, support services, and how the school is working to lift student achievement.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 615%

School 15% · District 15%

▼ 16 pts below state median

Grade 734%

School 34% · District 34%

even with state median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 46%

▲ 3 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 617%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 729%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 7 pts below state median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Science

Grade 88%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 18 pts below state median

Social studies

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 12%

▼ 19 pts below state median

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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.