Wilkes County Regional Detention Center

Wilkes County Regional Detention Center is a four-year high school of micro-enrollment scale in Washington, Georgia, overseen by Department of Juvenile Justice, works with 10 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 99% below the typical public school in Georgia, which averages around 1,120 students.

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

On demographics, Wilkes County Regional Detention Center lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (100%). By comparison, Wilkes County as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 3.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.2:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wilkes County runs at roughly 98%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Wilkes County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,043 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Wilkes County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,272 students), Wilkes County Regional Detention Center is one campus in the mix.

Washington-Wilkes Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Wilkes County Regional Detention Center.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

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