South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- The Phoenix

South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- The Phoenix is one of the tiny secondary schools in Albany, Georgia, run under Dougherty County, with 73 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 93% smaller than the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

Dougherty County comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 13,241 students; South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- The Phoenix is among them.

In terms of who attends, South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- The Phoenix logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). Other groups include 3% White, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Dougherty County as a whole is about 71% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- The Phoenix sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.7%; actual is 2.5%, a gap of -23.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dougherty County shows median household income runs about $49,044, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- The Phoenix is one of 22 public schools in Dougherty County (combined enrollment of about 13,241 students).

Dougherty Comprehensive High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- The Phoenix comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.