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Midway Hills Academy
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Midway Hills Academy
Midway Hills Academy is an elementary-level community of low-enrollment scale in Milledgeville, Georgia, overseen by Baldwin County, enrolling 392 students in grades 3 through 5. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 605 students.
Within Baldwin County, which oversees 6 schools and 4,510 students, Midway Hills Academy is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Midway Hills Academy reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 25% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Midway Hills Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Baldwin County (around 86%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Midway Hills Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 20.7%, a residual of -4.9 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Baldwin County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,403 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Baldwin County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,520 students), of which Midway Hills Academy is one.
Nearest neighbor: Baldwin High School, around 4.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Midway Hills Academy. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Midway Hills Academy ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 25.0%.
Midway Hills Academy operates from an outlying location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midway Hills Academy has declined 35%, going from 606 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 30% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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