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Midway Hills Academy
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Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedWhat this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Georgia's top nor bottom 10%.
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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.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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