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First District RESA
Bryan County
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Bryan 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
60.9%
+17.0 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
3rd of 40
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
2nd of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
+3.1 pts
Typical at 36% ED: 57.8%
Most aligned district
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
58.9%
Bryan County
60.9%+2.0 pts
Tested
6,261 (you: 7,372)
Econ. disadvantaged
50% (you: 36%)
18% SWD · 1% EL · 20% Black · 11% Hisp. · 56% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 40 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Bryan County on all subjects (7,372 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Oconee County
75.1%
5,682 tested
2
Buford City
72.7%
4,072 tested
3
Bryan County (this district)
60.9%
7,372 tested
4
Lowndes County
59.6%
6,876 tested
5
58.9%
6,261 tested
6
Floyd County
56.8%
5,766 tested

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

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

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

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
City Schools Of Decatur11% SWD · 3% EL · 17% Black · 6% Hisp. · 60% White
74.2%
3,574 tested
2
Bryan County (this district)14% SWD · 3% EL · 13% Black · 12% Hisp. · 61% White
60.9%
7,372 tested
3
Harris County15% SWD · 1% EL · 15% Black · 8% Hisp. · 70% White
59.2%
3,586 tested
4
Camden County18% SWD · 1% EL · 20% Black · 11% Hisp. · 56% White
58.9%
6,261 tested
5
Effingham County18% SWD · 3% EL · 18% Black · 14% Hisp. · 59% White
56.7%
9,798 tested

Bryan 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.

36% of Bryan County’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 57.8%; Bryan County scores 60.9% — +3.1 pts above that trend.

Bryan 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
Buford City36% economically disadvantaged
72.7%
+14.9 pts vs. poverty trend
2
Jefferson City29% economically disadvantaged
70.6%
+9.9 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Bremen City29% economically disadvantaged
69.5%
+8.8 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Fayette County34% economically disadvantaged
67.9%
+9.3 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Amana Academy West Atlanta34% economically disadvantaged
66.9%
+8.3 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Columbia County39% economically disadvantaged
61.8%
+5.3 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Bryan County (this district)36% economically disadvantaged
60.9%
+3.1 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Harris County39% economically disadvantaged
59.2%
+2.7 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Cherokee County37% economically disadvantaged
56.9%
−0.5 pts vs. poverty trend
10
Pike County43% economically disadvantaged
54.0%
−0.9 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Coweta County46% economically disadvantaged
52.0%
−1.6 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Carroll County44% economically disadvantaged
48.7%
−5.8 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Jones County41% economically disadvantaged
47.3%
−8.4 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Zest Preparatory Academy School43% economically disadvantaged
37.6%
— vs. poverty trend
15
Miles Ahead Charter School46% economically disadvantaged
27.3%
— vs. poverty trend

Bryan 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.