Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Cook County Middle School, Sparks, GA

CEP schoolCook County Middle School is a public middle school in Sparks, part of Cook County Public Schools. It enrolled 640 students in 2024-25, with 13.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 640
Teachers (FTE): 49.0
Students per teacher: 13.1
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.8. The Georgia average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.1

District12.8

Georgia14.4

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1601 N Elm St, Sparks, GA 31647
Phone: (229)549-5999
District: Cook County Public Schools
County: Cook County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID: 130147000628

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Direct certification: 279Students 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.

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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.