Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center

Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center is a four-year high school of very small scale in Marietta, Georgia, part of Department of Juvenile Justice, teacheing 18 students in grades 5 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center sits 98% leaner than that benchmark.

Department of Juvenile Justice runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 410 students. Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center logs that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 17% White, 17% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cobb County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cobb County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $102,738 per year, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center is one of 129 public schools in Cobb County (combined enrollment of about 116,609 students).

The closest other public school is Dunleith Elementary School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center's enrollment has edged up 125% since 2018, when it stood at 8 (now 18). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 88% to 67% over that span.

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