Summary:
Zip code 31820, encompassing the Midland, Georgia area, is home to just one high school: Aaron Cohn Regional Youth Detention Center, a specialized facility serving grades 5 through 12 under the Department of Juvenile Justice.
This is not a traditional public high school; it is an educational program within a youth detention center, which is essential context for understanding its data. With only 19 students and a remarkably low student-to-teacher ratio of 3.1:1, the school provides intensive staffing, though much of that staff time is dedicated to security, behavioral management, and remediation rather than standard instruction. The student body is overwhelmingly economically disadvantaged, with 84.21% qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. On the 2024–2025 Algebra I End of Course assessment, the school posted a 0% proficiency rate, compared to a 1.4% rate for the entire Department of Juvenile Justice district and a 44.9% rate statewide—a gap of roughly 45 percentage points.
These low scores reflect the profound educational disruption and trauma experienced by incarcerated youth, not the quality of the school's staff or programs. The near-identical district-wide proficiency rate (1.4%) confirms this is a systemic challenge across all DJJ facilities in Georgia, not a unique deficiency at this location. With such a tiny cohort, a single student's score can swing the percentage dramatically, so year-to-year comparisons are unreliable. The school's true value lies in providing stability, educational continuity, and rehabilitation pathways for a highly vulnerable population—outcomes not captured by test scores alone. English Language Arts results have not yet been released for this cycle, so no conclusions should be drawn about that subject until December.
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