Factory Shoals Middle School, part of the Douglas County district, is located in Douglasville, Georgia. The school reports an enrollment number of 840 students in grades six through eight, and it has 57 teachers on staff.

Factory Shoals Middle School is above both the state and district averages for the percentage of students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 52 percent of students in Georgia qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, while 54 percent of students at Factory Shoals Middle School do. At the district level, 53 percent of students qualify.

ProPublica's analysis found that all too often, states and schools provide poor students fewer educational programs like Advanced Placement, gifted and talented programs, and advanced math and science classes. Studies have linked participation in these programs with better outcomes later in life. Our analysis uses free and reduced-price lunch to estimate poverty at schools. We based our findings on the most comprehensive data set of access to advanced classes and special programs in U.S. public schools — known as the Civil Rights Data Set— released by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Factory Shoals Middle School's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 11 percent.

Riverwatch Middle School, in Suwanee, Ga., is a lower-poverty school than Factory Shoals Middle School, with 3 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 28 percent of students in its gifted and talented program.

These data points were reported by schools and districts to the Office for Civil Rights. For more information about the data, see our full methodology.

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