Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center

Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center serves students in Dalton, Georgia, as a very small high school. The school offers grades 5 through 12 and enrolls 9 students. That puts enrollment 99% below the 1,120-student average for high schools in Georgia.

Department of Juvenile Justice is the local district for Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center. It runs 24 schools with 410 students.

The largest group at Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center is White students, at 33%. Smaller groups are 33% Black, 22% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Whitfield County is roughly 65% White.

Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 3.0:1. The gap from the 15.2:1 average for high schools in Georgia is 12.2 students per teacher. At Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center, 33% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 50 points below the 83% average for public schools in Whitfield County.

The school is in Whitfield County, where the median household earns about $67,070 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Whitfield County counts 33 public schools with about 19,570 students.

Dalton Jr. High School is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

In 2020-21 the school reported 2 students, and in 2024-25 it reported 9. Grade changes, mergers, or boundary shifts can explain gaps this large.

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