Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Dean Rusk Middle School, Canton, GA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,543
- Teachers (FTE)
- 92.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.8
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 2.4 higher than the district figure of 14.4. The Georgia average across schools is 14.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 2761 E Cherokee Dr, Canton, GA 30115
- Phone
- (770)704-1135
- District
- Cherokee County Public Schools
- County
- Cherokee County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 130111001970
School meals
- Free lunch
- 356
- Reduced-price lunch
- 110
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 46630.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 92Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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 Cherokee County Public Schools
- E. T. Booth Middle School 1,675 students
- Teasley Middle School 1,586 students
- Creekland Middle School 1,503 students
- Mill Creek Middle School 1,476 students
- Woodstock Middle School 1,075 students
- Freedom Middle School 929 students
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.