Rising Starr Middle School, 183 Panther Path, Fayetteville: grades 6-8, 963 students in 2025, CCRPI 96.2. Serves Braelinn; feeds Starr's Mill.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Rising Starr Middle website, Fayette County Public Schools’ school directory, school hours, school boundary maps page and 2026-27 calendar (PDF), the district’s Find My School zones, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.

Rising Starr Middle School is a Fayette County Public Schools middle school for sixth through eighth grade that serves the south side of Peachtree City. Its mailing address says Fayetteville, but the campus on Panther Path sits in unincorporated Fayette County, next to Starr’s Mill High, according to the Census Bureau’s geocoder.

About 30% of Peachtree City’s residential addresses are zoned for Rising Starr, the same homes zoned for Starr’s Mill High, according to our neighborhoods guide.

  • Address: 183 Panther Path, Fayetteville, GA 30215
  • Phone: 770-486-2721
  • Grades: 6 to 8
  • Website: rsms.fcboe.org
  • School day: 8:10 a.m. to 3:10 p.m.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Mark Henderson, according to the school’s website.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 963 students at Rising Starr Middle in its 2025 School Grades data, covering the 2024-25 school year. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 958 students and 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.5 students per teacher.

State report card

Rising Starr Middle’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 96.2, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for middle schools was 78.4 and the Fayette County Public Schools average was 92.6. The school scored 96.3 in 2023 and 95.5 in 2024. Scores can move a lot from one year to the next at a single school. The full report card, with student groups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s Rising Starr Middle report card.

CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.

Georgia Milestones, 2025, share of tested students scoring Proficient and Distinguished, the two upper achievement levels:

Subject Proficient Distinguished
English language arts 44.7% 32.3%
Math 35.3% 44.8%
Science (eighth grade) 40.1% 41.7%
Social studies (eighth grade) 48.1% 39.2%

The same data put 86.2% of eighth graders reading at or above grade level.

Attendance zone

Zones are set by the district and do not follow city limits or ZIP codes. Look up an address on the district’s Find My School map, which its school boundary maps page points to; clicking a school’s name there shows its whole zone.

Feeder schools. In the district’s Find My School zones, three elementary zones feed Rising Starr: all of Braelinn Elementary and Oak Grove Elementary, and 1,596 of the 2,800 residential addresses in the zone of Peeples Elementary, also on Panther Path; the rest of the Peeples zone goes to Whitewater Middle. Every address in the Rising Starr zone is also in the zone for Starr’s Mill High. The district does not publish a separate feeder list; this comes from matching Fayette County’s residential address points to the district’s zone maps.

In Peachtree City, 4,396 of the city’s 14,489 residential addresses are zoned for Rising Starr: every address in the Braelinn village, 6% of Aberdeen and 1% of Glenloch. Most of the rest of the city goes to J.C. Booth Middle.

We found no boundary change approved by the Board of Education that affects Rising Starr Middle for 2026-27.

Calendar and bell times

The district’s school hours page sets one schedule for every Fayette County middle school: 8:10 a.m. to 3:10 p.m..

From the district’s 2026-27 student calendar (PDF):

  • Monday, Oct. 12, through Friday, Oct. 16: fall break, no school
  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: personalized learning day; students work from home
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 4: semester break; the second semester starts Tuesday, Jan. 5
  • Monday, Jan. 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • Feb. 15-19: winter break
  • April 5-9: spring break
  • Friday, May 28, 2027: last day of school

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Frequently asked questions

Is Rising Starr Middle in Peachtree City?

No. Its mailing address is Fayetteville, but the campus on Panther Path is in unincorporated Fayette County, south of Peachtree City. It is the zoned middle school for all of the Braelinn village.

What is Rising Starr Middle’s CCRPI score?

96.2 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against a Georgia middle school average of 78.4 and a Fayette County Public Schools average of 92.6.

Which high school does Rising Starr Middle feed into?

Starr’s Mill High, next door on Panther Path. In the district’s zones, every Rising Starr address is also in the Starr’s Mill zone.

Which elementary schools feed Rising Starr Middle?

Braelinn and Oak Grove elementary schools in Peachtree City and part of Peeples Elementary.

What time does Rising Starr Middle start?

Fayette County middle schools run 8:10 a.m. to 3:10 p.m., according to the district’s school hours page.