Sandy Springs Middle School
Fulton County
+12.9 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
763 students · 106% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 14%·EL 23%·Black 50%·Hisp. 28%·White 10%
Every Georgia middle school of about this size, serving about these students — which of them are ahead, and which are ahead of what their own students' poverty rate would predict. Those are the ones with a practice worth going to see.
2024–25 · 718 students
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 66.6
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's middle schools at 100% average 66.5
Look-alike schools that score higher than Langston Chapel Middle School and higher than Georgia's middle schools at their own poverty rate manage. Ordered by how far above that line they sit — not by raw score, which mostly finds the least poor school in the group.
Fulton County
+12.9 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
763 students · 106% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 14%·EL 23%·Black 50%·Hisp. 28%·White 10%
Clarke County
+11.8 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
712 students · 99% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 14%·EL 33%·Black 39%·Hisp. 41%·White 16%
Houston County
+9.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
781 students · 109% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 16%·EL 11%·Black 46%·Hisp. 18%·White 27%
Houston County
+8.0 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
780 students · 109% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 18%·EL 10%·Black 63%·Hisp. 15%·White 15%
Baldwin County
+8.0 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
974 students · 136% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 16%·EL 4%·Black 65%·Hisp. 6%·White 22%
Georgia middle schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 154 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandy Springs Middle School Fulton County | 763 | 100% | 79.4 | +12.9 | |
| 2 | Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School Clarke County | 712 | 100% | 78.3 | +11.8 | |
| 3 | Warner Robins Middle School Houston County | 781 | 100% | 75.8 | +9.3 | |
| 4 | Huntington Middle School Houston County | 780 | 100% | 74.5 | +8.0 | |
| 5 | Oak Hill MS Baldwin County | 974 | 100% | 74.5 | +8.0 | |
| 6 | Bainbridge Middle School Decatur County | 793 | 100% | 70.7 | +4.2 | |
| 7 | Sequoyah Middle School Clayton County | 765 | 100% | 70.5 | +4.0 | |
| 8 | North Clayton Middle School Clayton County | 817 | 100% | 69.5 | +3.0 | |
| 9 | Camp Creek Middle School Fulton County | 749 | 100% | 68.7 | +2.2 | |
| 10 | Crisp County Middle School Crisp County | 714 | 100% | 67.4 | +0.9 | |
| 11 | McNair Middle School Fulton County | 727 | 100% | 66.6 | +0.1 | |
| 12 | Hephzibah Middle School Richmond County | 728 | 100% | 64.7 | −1.8 | |
| 13 | Stephenson Middle School DeKalb County | 788 | 100% | 63.9 | −2.6 | |
| 14 | Pointe South Middle School Clayton County | 693 | 100% | 63.5 | −3.0 | |
| 15 | Langston Chapel Middle SchoolThis school Bulloch County | 718 | 100% | 63.0 | −3.5 | |
| 16 | Hilsman Middle School Clarke County | 625 | 100% | 60.7 | −5.8 | |
| 17 | Pine Hill Middle School Richmond County | 757 | 100% | 60.0 | −6.5 | |
| 18 | Mundys Mill Middle School Clayton County | 687 | 100% | 58.6 | −7.9 | |
| 19 | Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School DeKalb County | 655 | 100% | 57.0 | −9.5 | |
| 20 | McNair Middle School DeKalb County | 701 | 100% | 55.2 | −11.3 | |
| 21 | Clements Middle School Newton County | 705 | 100% | 53.7 | −12.8 |
“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's middle schools average at its poverty rate. Positive means it is getting more out of a similar student population than the state typically does.
The line is what the state manages at each poverty rate. Height above it, not height on the page, is the thing worth chasing — and it is why the peer set is drawn from a band across this chart rather than from the top of it.
Sources: CCRPI single scores published by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, and enrollment size and composition from GOSA's Enrollment by Grade and Enrollment by Subgroup Metrics files, all 2024–25. CCRPI is used rather than Milestones proficiency because it is the one measure published for every school in Georgia; Milestones detail on this site covers the First District systems only, so peer schools link to a dashboard here when they are in the region and are listed by name when they are not. Peers must share a grade span, because elementary, middle and high CCRPI scores are built from different components. Similarity is a rank sum of composition distance — shares of economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, English learner, Black, Hispanic and White students — and the gap in economically disadvantaged rate. The line each school is judged against is fitted by least squares across Georgia schools of the same grade span enrolling at least 200 students, and is drawn only where it explains at least a quarter of the variation. Georgia identifies economically disadvantaged students by direct certification, and schools operating the Community Eligibility Provision report every student as eligible — so the measure compresses at the top. See how Bulloch County compares as a system.