Elite Scholars Academy School
Clayton County
757 students · 144% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 0%·EL 5%·Black 63%·Hisp. 17%·White 1%
Every Georgia middle/high 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 · 525 students
of 19 middle/high schools serving similar students · median 69.9
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia publishes no usable trend for this grade span
Look-alike schools scoring higher than Portal Middle/High School, ordered by score. None of them is large enough, or in a grade span settled enough, for the state's poverty trend to say whether it is over-performing.
Clayton County
757 students · 144% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 0%·EL 5%·Black 63%·Hisp. 17%·White 1%
Richmond County
640 students · 122% of your size
ED 70%·SWD 2%·EL 2%·Black 66%·Hisp. 9%·White 17%
Floyd County
861 students · 164% of your size
ED 71%·SWD 11%·EL 8%·Black 11%·Hisp. 28%·White 54%
Colquitt County
1,391 students · 265% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 15%·EL 27%·Black 27%·Hisp. 35%·White 34%
Richmond County
433 students · 82% of your size
ED 82%·SWD 4%·EL 2%·Black 75%·Hisp. 7%·White 12%
Georgia middle/high schools within 20 points of this one's poverty rate, a third to three times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 18 schools cleared that bar; these are the 18 nearest by the students they serve. The size and poverty match had to be loosened — too few schools met the tighter one.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elite Scholars Academy School Clayton County | 757 | 100% | 98.6 | — | |
| 2 | Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet School Richmond County | 640 | 70% | 87.1 | — | |
| 3 | Coosa High School Floyd County | 861 | 71% | 84.2 | — | |
| 4 | CA Gray Junior High School Colquitt County | 1,391 | 100% | 80.2 | — | |
| 5 | Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School Richmond County | 433 | 82% | 79.5 | — | |
| 6 | Hart County High School Hart County | 1,075 | 86% | 77.4 | — | |
| 7 | Portal Middle/High SchoolThis school Bulloch County | 525 | 84% | 74.4 | — | |
| 8 | B.E.S.T Academy Atlanta Public Schools | 270 | 97% | 73.7 | — | |
| 9 | Treutlen Middle/High School Treutlen County | 521 | 98% | 71.0 | — | |
| 10 | Emanuel County | 572 | 70% | 69.9 | — | |
| 11 | Marion County Middle/High School Marion County | 688 | 97% | 69.8 | — | |
| 12 | Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy Atlanta Public Schools | 377 | 98% | 69.6 | — | |
| 13 | Seminole County Middle/High School Seminole County | 695 | 100% | 68.1 | — | |
| 14 | International Transition Center Gwinnett County | 640 | 92% | 56.1 | — | |
| 15 | Cobb Horizon High School Cobb County | 927 | 92% | 52.1 | — | |
| 16 | EXCEL Academy Henry County | 211 | 67% | 41.9 | — | |
| 17 | Gwinnett InterVention Education (GIVE) Center East Gwinnett County | 329 | 71% | 32.4 | — | |
| 18 | Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (GIVE) West Gwinnett County | 225 | 79% | 32.0 | — | |
| 19 | New Beginning Learning Center Decatur County | 184 | 100% | 27.3 | — |
“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's middle/high schools average at its poverty rate. Positive means it is getting more out of a similar student population than the state typically does.
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.