New Beginning Learning Center

Set in Bainbridge, Georgia, New Beginning Learning Center is a rural-scale secondary school, part of Decatur County. It enrolls 183 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 1,120 students each, so New Beginning Learning Center sits 84% leaner than that benchmark.

Decatur County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,178 students; New Beginning Learning Center is among them.

Looking at the student body, New Beginning Learning Center records that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Decatur County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, New Beginning Learning Center sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.7%; actual is 2.1%, a gap of -23.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Decatur County indicate median household earnings sit near $53,317, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Across Decatur County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,652 students), New Beginning Learning Center is one campus in the mix.

Bainbridge Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, New Beginning Learning Center comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. New Beginning Learning Center's enrollment has grew 182% since 2018, when it stood at 65 (now 183). Class-load math has pulled in: from 216.7:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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