Pierce County Middle School
Pierce County
+18.8 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
826 students · 93% of your size
ED 88%·SWD 16%·EL 6%·Black 8%·Hisp. 10%·White 76%
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 · 886 students
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 74.3
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's middle schools at 83% average 71.1
Look-alike schools that score higher than Southeast Bulloch 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.
Pierce County
+18.8 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
826 students · 93% of your size
ED 88%·SWD 16%·EL 6%·Black 8%·Hisp. 10%·White 76%
Muscogee County
+14.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
799 students · 90% of your size
ED 85%·SWD 9%·EL 3%·Black 49%·Hisp. 10%·White 25%
Cobb County
+11.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
809 students · 91% of your size
ED 87%·SWD 12%·EL 20%·Black 58%·Hisp. 29%·White 6%
Glynn County
+9.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
592 students · 67% of your size
ED 83%·SWD 17%·EL 13%·Black 31%·Hisp. 17%·White 47%
Laurens County
+7.7 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
907 students · 102% of your size
ED 83%·SWD 14%·EL 4%·Black 27%·Hisp. 6%·White 64%
Georgia middle schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 77 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pierce County Middle School Pierce County | 826 | 88% | 88.6 | +18.8 | |
| 2 | Richards Middle School Muscogee County | 799 | 85% | 84.7 | +14.1 | |
| 3 | Tapp Middle School Cobb County | 809 | 87% | 81.6 | +11.6 | |
| 4 | Glynn County | 592 | 83% | 80.2 | +9.1 | |
| 5 | West Laurens Middle School Laurens County | 907 | 83% | 78.8 | +7.7 | |
| 6 | Bleckley Middle School Bleckley County | 553 | 85% | 78.1 | +7.5 | |
| 7 | Jordan Middle School Gwinnett County | 757 | 83% | 77.3 | +6.2 | |
| 8 | Southeast Bulloch Middle SchoolThis school Bulloch County | 886 | 83% | 77.0 | +5.9 | |
| 9 | Calhoun Middle School Calhoun City | 573 | 83% | 76.6 | +5.5 | |
| 10 | Cedartown Middle School Polk County | 997 | 80% | 74.7 | +2.8 | |
| 11 | White County Middle School White County | 902 | 85% | 74.3 | +3.7 | |
| 12 | Ware County Middle School Ware County | 752 | 80% | 74.1 | +2.2 | |
| 13 | Long County | 1,007 | 78% | 73.9 | +1.4 | |
| 14 | Banks County Middle School Banks County | 633 | 81% | 73.5 | +1.8 | |
| 15 | Chestnut Log Middle School Douglas County | 719 | 84% | 70.9 | +0.1 | |
| 16 | Clarke Middle School Clarke County | 718 | 84% | 70.5 | −0.3 | |
| 17 | Moore Middle School Gwinnett County | 971 | 81% | 70.0 | −1.7 | |
| 18 | Red Bud Middle School Gordon County | 786 | 85% | 68.4 | −2.2 | |
| 19 | Madison County Middle School Madison County | 1,149 | 85% | 68.0 | −2.6 | |
| 20 | East Hall Middle School Hall County | 778 | 82% | 63.3 | −8.1 | |
| 21 | Red Top Middle School Bartow County | 569 | 83% | 62.9 | −8.2 |
“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.