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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
Among similar size
3rd of 40
Districts testing a similar number of students
Among demographic peers
2nd of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. similar 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 tested), ranked by score.

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Oconee County75.1%
2Buford City72.7%
3Bryan County60.9%
4Lowndes County59.6%
5Camden County58.9%
6Floyd County56.8%
7Effingham County56.7%
8Laurens County55.7%
9Jackson County55.0%
10Marietta City51.5%
11Walton County49.8%
12Catoosa County49.4%
13Carroll County48.7%
14Habersham County47.3%
15Glynn County47.1%16Bulloch County44.9%
17Colquitt County44.7%
18Carrollton City43.7%
19Bartow County43.6%
20Gordon County41.2%
21Tift County40.5%
22Whitfield County39.9%
23Dalton Public Schools39.8%
24Murray County39.8%
25Ware County39.8%
26Barrow County37.7%
27Troup County37.0%
28Thomas County36.9%
29Rome City36.6%
30Polk County34.3%
31Walker County32.9%
32Coffee County32.6%
33Liberty County32.6%
34Clarke County31.9%
35Dougherty County30.3%
36Gainesville City28.2%
37Rockdale County27.2%
38Valdosta City26.4%
39Griffin-Spalding County24.6%
40Georgia Cyber Academy (Virtual)22.9%

Georgia averageBars 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.

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1City Schools Of Decatur11% SWD · 3% EL · 17% Black · 6% Hisp. · 60% White74.2%
2Bryan County14% SWD · 3% EL · 13% Black · 12% Hisp. · 61% White60.9%
3Harris County15% SWD · 1% EL · 15% Black · 8% Hisp. · 70% White59.2%
4Camden County18% SWD · 1% EL · 20% Black · 11% Hisp. · 56% White58.9%5Effingham County18% SWD · 3% EL · 18% Black · 14% Hisp. · 59% White56.7%
6Morgan County13% SWD · 3% EL · 20% Black · 8% Hisp. · 67% White56.5%
7Commerce City17% SWD · 5% EL · 12% Black · 19% Hisp. · 62% White54.5%
8Cherokee Classical Academy School10% SWD · 3% EL · 10% Black · 14% Hisp. · 65% White54.4%
9Northwest Classical Academy15% SWD · 5% EL · 18% Black · 15% Hisp. · 57% White52.8%
10Carroll County16% SWD · 4% EL · 19% Black · 13% Hisp. · 59% White48.7%
11Berrien County9% SWD · 3% EL · 11% Black · 12% Hisp. · 70% White48.6%
12Baconton Community Charter School16% SWD · 3% EL · 15% Black · 13% Hisp. · 68% White47.1%
13Madison County21% SWD · 6% EL · 11% Black · 16% Hisp. · 65% White46.5%
14Oglethorpe County15% SWD · 5% EL · 16% Black · 14% Hisp. · 63% White43.9%
15Hart County17% SWD · 6% EL · 20% Black · 13% Hisp. · 58% White43.8%
16Bartow County16% SWD · 6% EL · 10% Black · 20% Hisp. · 63% White43.6%
17Stephens County18% SWD · 3% EL · 12% Black · 7% Hisp. · 68% White42.6%
18Franklin County13% SWD · 4% EL · 10% Black · 11% Hisp. · 71% White42.4%
19Wayne County19% SWD · 4% EL · 22% Black · 11% Hisp. · 61% White41.7%
20Jasper County13% SWD · 3% EL · 14% Black · 10% Hisp. · 71% White36.8%
21Coweta Charter Academy12% SWD · 5% EL · 19% Black · 9% Hisp. · 62% White34.3%

Georgia averageBars 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

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Buford City36% economically disadvantaged72.7%
2Jefferson City29% economically disadvantaged70.6%
3Bremen City29% economically disadvantaged69.5%
4Fayette County34% economically disadvantaged67.9%
5Amana Academy West Atlanta34% economically disadvantaged66.9%
6Columbia County39% economically disadvantaged61.8%
7Bryan County36% economically disadvantaged60.9%
8Harris County39% economically disadvantaged59.2%
9Cherokee County37% economically disadvantaged56.9%
10Pike County43% economically disadvantaged54.0%
11Coweta County46% economically disadvantaged52.0%
12Carroll County44% economically disadvantaged48.7%
13Jones County41% economically disadvantaged47.3%
14Zest Preparatory Academy School43% economically disadvantaged37.6%
15Miles Ahead Charter School46% economically disadvantaged27.3%

Georgia averageBars 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.