West Jackson Middle School
Jefferson, GA · Middle School · Grades 6-8
West Jackson Middle School is a middle school in Jefferson, GA with 1,502 students enrolled and a 65% proficiency rate. Part of Jackson County. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
West Jackson Middle School is a middle school located in Jefferson, Georgia. The school serves 1,502 students in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 65% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
28% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
West Jackson Middle School is part of the Jackson County in Georgia.
How This School Compares
West Jackson Middle School has 1,502 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Jackson County (992 students). Its 65% proficiency rate is 14 percentage points above the district average of 51%. Compared to the Georgia state average of 44%, the school performs 21 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
West Jackson Middle School has 1,502 students enrolled in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 65% of students at West Jackson Middle School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
West Jackson Middle School is part of the Jackson County in Jefferson, Georgia. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.