Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center

Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center is a very small high school in Georgia, located in Marietta. There are 18 students enrolled, covering grades 5 through 12. That puts enrollment 98% below the 1,120-student average for high schools in Georgia.

District-wide, Department of Juvenile Justice has 24 schools and 410 students.

The share of Black students at Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center is 67%, a majority. After that, the student body is 17% White and 17% Hispanic. Census figures show Cobb County is about 27% Black.

Teacher count: 4 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 4.5:1. Across high schools in Georgia, the average ratio is 15.2:1. Roughly 83% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 53% average for public schools in Cobb County is 30 points.

Cobb County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $102,738 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 51% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Public schools in Cobb County number 129, with about 116,609 students.

Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center is about 1.2 miles from Dunleith Elementary School, its nearest public school. Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

In 2020-21, federal data counted 10 students at Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center; in 2024-25, 18. The grades served may not have been the same in both years.

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