Youth Middle School

Youth Middle School operates as a sizable junior high in Loganville, Georgia, overseen by Walton County. Current enrollment sits at 1,181 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 763 students per school, that is 55% bigger than typical.

Walton County comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 14,783 students; Youth Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Youth Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest reads as 16% Black, 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Youth Middle School has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Walton County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Youth Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.1%; this one delivers 48.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Walton County put median household earnings sit near $84,945, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Youth Middle School is one of 19 public schools in Walton County (combined enrollment of about 16,815 students).

Youth Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Youth Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Youth Middle School's enrollment has edged up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,095 (now 1,181). The White share of enrollment fell from 75% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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