Skip to content
BCER

Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School, Athens, GA

CEP schoolBurney-Harris-Lyons Middle School is a public middle school in Athens, part of Clarke County Public Schools. It enrolled 707 students in 2024-25, with 11.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
707
Teachers (FTE)
61.0
Students per teacher
11.6
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.4 higher than the district figure of 10.2. The Georgia average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.6
District10.2
Georgia14.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
1600 Tallassee Rd, Athens, GA 30606
Phone
(706)548-7208
District
Clarke County Public Schools
County
Clarke County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Midsize
NCES school ID
130117000456
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
707
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
707100.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification
199Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Clarke County Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.