Richards Middle School
Muscogee County
84.7+6.8 vs. you
+14.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
799 students · 148% of your size
ED 85%·SWD 9%·EL 3%·Black 49%·Hisp. 10%·White 25%
William James Middle School
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like William James Middle School
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.
Ranked on CCRPI rather than Milestones, because CCRPI is the one score Georgia publishes for every school in the state.
CCRPI single score
77.9
2024–25 · 539 students
Among its look-alikes
7th
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 71.9
Economically disadvantaged
86%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
+7.6 pts
Georgia's middle schools at 86% average 70.3
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
Look-alike schools that score higher than William James 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.
Oglethorpe County Middle School
Oglethorpe County
81.9+4.0 vs. you
+11.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
524 students · 97% of your size
ED 85%·SWD 16%·EL 10%·Black 18%·Hisp. 13%·White 61%
Byron Middle School
Peach County
80.0+2.1 vs. you
+9.4 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
453 students · 84% of your size
ED 85%·SWD 17%·EL 5%·Black 38%·Hisp. 11%·White 44%
Risley Middle School
Glynn County
80.2+2.3 vs. you
+9.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
592 students · 110% of your size
ED 83%·SWD 17%·EL 13%·Black 31%·Hisp. 17%·White 47%
Bleckley Middle School
Bleckley County
78.1+0.2 vs. you
+7.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
553 students · 103% of your size
ED 85%·SWD 15%·EL 1%·Black 23%·Hisp. 5%·White 67%
The comparison group
The 20 schools most like this one
Georgia middle schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 63 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
Rank
School
CCRPI single score
Students
ED
vs. expected
1
Richards Middle SchoolMuscogee County
84.7
799 students
85% econ. disadvantaged
+14.1 vs. expected
2
Oglethorpe County Middle SchoolOglethorpe County
81.9
524 students
85% econ. disadvantaged
+11.3 vs. expected
4
Byron Middle SchoolPeach County
80.0
453 students
85% econ. disadvantaged
+9.4 vs. expected
5
Bleckley Middle SchoolBleckley County
78.1
553 students
85% econ. disadvantaged
+7.5 vs. expected
6
Blackmon Road Middle SchoolMuscogee County
78.0
478 students
79% econ. disadvantaged
+5.8 vs. expected
7
William James Middle School (this school)Bulloch County
77.9
539 students
86% econ. disadvantaged
+7.6 vs. expected
8
Calhoun Middle SchoolCalhoun City
76.6
573 students
83% econ. disadvantaged
+5.5 vs. expected
9
Waycross Middle SchoolWare County
73.6
607 students
91% econ. disadvantaged
+4.6 vs. expected
10
Screven County Middle SchoolScreven County
72.7
453 students
81% econ. disadvantaged
+1.0 vs. expected
11
Yeager Middle SchoolDouglas County
71.9
529 students
79% econ. disadvantaged
−0.3 vs. expected
12
Clarke Middle SchoolClarke County
70.5
718 students
84% econ. disadvantaged
−0.3 vs. expected
13
MacIntyre Park Middle SchoolThomasville City
67.6
530 students
96% econ. disadvantaged
+0.0 vs. expected
14
Thomson-McDuffie Middle SchoolMcDuffie County
64.6
668 students
90% econ. disadvantaged
−4.6 vs. expected
15
Red Top Middle SchoolBartow County
62.9
569 students
83% econ. disadvantaged
−8.2 vs. expected
16
T. J. Elder Middle SchoolWashington County
60.8
590 students
90% econ. disadvantaged
−8.4 vs. expected
17
Oglethorpe Charter SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
56.9
567 students
88% econ. disadvantaged
−12.9 vs. expected
18
Stewart Middle SchoolDouglas County
56.4
533 students
87% econ. disadvantaged
−13.6 vs. expected
19
Myers Middle SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
52.2
503 students
93% econ. disadvantaged
−16.2 vs. expected
20
Southwest Middle SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
48.4
528 students
81% econ. disadvantaged
−23.3 vs. expected
21
Mercer Middle SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
47.3
512 students
85% econ. disadvantaged
−23.3 vs. expected
This schoolOther schools“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.Bars run 0–100.
The whole state
Every Georgia middle school, by poverty rate
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.