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First District RESA
Appling County
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Appling County compares

A statewide ranking mostly ranks size and affluence. These are the fairer questions: how does this system do against districts of similar size, districts serving similar students, and districts at a similar poverty rate?

Georgia: 43.9%

English Language Arts results for 2025–26 have not been published yet. “All subjects” scores and rankings cover the published subjects only.

Proficient or Distinguished
53.9%
+10.0 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
12th of 68
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
7th of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
+22.3 pts
Typical at 99% ED: 31.6%
Most aligned district
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
32.7%
Appling County
53.9%+21.2 pts
Tested
2,267 (you: 2,195)
Econ. disadvantaged
99% (you: 99%)
18% SWD · 6% EL · 23% Black · 22% Hisp. · 49% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 68 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Appling County on all subjects (2,195 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Academy For Classical Education
72.0%
1,291 tested
9
Monroe County
56.2%
3,289 tested
10
Commerce City
54.5%
1,328 tested
11
Pike County
54.0%
2,206 tested
12
Appling County (this district)
53.9%
2,195 tested
13
Rabun County
48.8%
1,426 tested
14
Berrien County
48.6%
1,898 tested
15, tied
Gilmer County
48.5%
2,697 tested

Appling CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

The 20 Georgia districts whose tested populations look most like Appling County's — matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Buford City12% SWD · 8% EL · 11% Black · 25% Hisp. · 46% White
72.7%
4,072 tested
4
Effingham County18% SWD · 3% EL · 18% Black · 14% Hisp. · 59% White
56.7%
9,798 tested
5
Jackson County17% SWD · 10% EL · 10% Black · 23% Hisp. · 58% White
55.0%
7,492 tested
6
Commerce City17% SWD · 5% EL · 12% Black · 19% Hisp. · 62% White
54.5%
1,328 tested
7
Appling County (this district)15% SWD · 8% EL · 18% Black · 23% Hisp. · 54% White
53.9%
2,195 tested
8
Northwest Classical Academy15% SWD · 5% EL · 18% Black · 15% Hisp. · 57% White
52.8%
702 tested
9
Coweta County13% SWD · 4% EL · 25% Black · 13% Hisp. · 53% White
52.0%
14,804 tested
10
Walton County14% SWD · 6% EL · 25% Black · 15% Hisp. · 51% White
49.8%
9,707 tested

Appling CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 3

Against the poverty trend

Proficiency tracks how many students a district serves in poverty, so a plain ranking partly ranks affluence. This places every Georgia district against the statewide trend — above the line is out-performing districts serving similar student populations.

GOSA has not published enrollment figures for 2025–26 yet, so each district is placed by its 2024–25 poverty rate — the most recent published. Scores are 2025–26’s own.

99% of Appling County’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 31.6%; Appling County scores 53.9% — +22.3 pts above that trend.

Appling CountyGeorgia districtStatewide trend192 districts · poverty explains 44% of the variation · 2024–25 poverty rates

The 15 districts closest in poverty rate

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
vs. trend
1
Appling County (this district)99% economically disadvantaged
53.9%
+22.3 pts vs. poverty trend
2
Lanier County99% economically disadvantaged
48.3%
+16.7 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Treutlen County99% economically disadvantaged
43.9%
+12.3 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Cook County99% economically disadvantaged
37.7%
+6.1 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Putnam County99% economically disadvantaged
36.5%
+4.9 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Genesis Innovation Academy For Boys99% economically disadvantaged
34.1%
+2.5 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Genesis Innovation Academy For Girl99% economically disadvantaged
32.9%
+1.3 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Tattnall County99% economically disadvantaged
32.7%
+1.1 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Pelham City99% economically disadvantaged
32.4%
+0.8 pts vs. poverty trend
10
McIntosh County99% economically disadvantaged
31.7%
+0.1 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Dodge County99% economically disadvantaged
30.4%
−1.2 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Crawford County99% economically disadvantaged
26.1%
−5.5 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Jefferson County99% economically disadvantaged
25.8%
−5.8 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Georgia Fugees Academy Charter Scho99% economically disadvantaged
17.6%
— vs. poverty trend
15
Talbot County99% economically disadvantaged
16.6%
−15.0 pts vs. poverty trend

Appling CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)“vs. trend” is coloured only more than one residual standard deviation from the statewide line.Bars run 0–100%.

Source: Georgia Milestones district aggregates published by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, All Students, all grades. “All subjects” weights each subject by students tested. Similar-size bands use the number of students tested rather than enrollment — it is published for every district and is the population the scores actually describe. Demographic peers are the twenty districts whose tested populations look most like this system's own, matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students in EOG Mathematics. The poverty comparison uses the share of enrolled students identified as economically disadvantaged in GOSA's Enrollment by Subgroup Metrics file, fitted against proficiency by least squares across all districts testing at least 200 students. Georgia identifies economically disadvantaged students by direct certification, and districts operating the Community Eligibility Provision report every student as eligible — so the measure compresses at the top and describes the trend, not any individual cause. See every First District system on the statewide ranking.