St. Simons Elementary School
Glynn County
+16.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
430 students · 101% of your size
ED 69%·SWD 15%·EL 12%·Black 18%·Hisp. 17%·White 59%
Every Georgia elementary 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 · 425 students
of 21 elementary schools serving similar students · median 79.4
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's elementary schools at 70% average 75.6
Look-alike schools that score higher than Mamie Lou Gross Elementary School and higher than Georgia's elementary 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.
Glynn County
+16.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
430 students · 101% of your size
ED 69%·SWD 15%·EL 12%·Black 18%·Hisp. 17%·White 59%
Houston County
+14.4 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
425 students · 100% of your size
ED 78%·SWD 17%·EL 5%·Black 32%·Hisp. 12%·White 43%
Douglas County
+12.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
515 students · 121% of your size
ED 68%·SWD 25%·EL 5%·Black 44%·Hisp. 14%·White 32%
Clarke County
+9.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
512 students · 120% of your size
ED 68%·SWD 20%·EL 11%·Black 38%·Hisp. 14%·White 38%
Houston County
+8.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
548 students · 129% of your size
ED 72%·SWD 14%·EL 2%·Black 29%·Hisp. 11%·White 48%
Georgia elementary schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 137 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glynn County | 430 | 69% | 92.4 | +16.6 | |
| 2 | Mason Creek Elementary School Douglas County | 515 | 68% | 88.6 | +12.5 | |
| 3 | Langston Road Primary School Houston County | 425 | 78% | 87.7 | +14.4 | |
| 4 | Timothy Elementary School Clarke County | 512 | 68% | 85.4 | +9.3 | |
| 5 | Hilltop Elementary School Houston County | 548 | 72% | 83.5 | +8.5 | |
| 6 | Johnnie Lay Burks Elementary School Clarke County | 430 | 74% | 81.8 | +7.4 | |
| 7 | Garden Lakes Elementary School Floyd County | 475 | 73% | 81.7 | +7.0 | |
| 8 | Model Elementary School Floyd County | 445 | 66% | 81.7 | +5.0 | |
| 9 | Hollis Hand Elementary School Troup County | 522 | 71% | 80.8 | +5.5 | |
| 10 | Mamie Lou Gross Elementary SchoolThis school Camden County | 425 | 70% | 79.5 | +3.9 | |
| 11 | Social Circle Elementary School Social Circle City | 438 | 77% | 79.4 | +5.8 | |
| 12 | Western Elementary School Coweta County | 408 | 66% | 77.8 | +1.1 | |
| 13 | Briar Vista Elementary School DeKalb County | 427 | 71% | 76.3 | +1.0 | |
| 14 | Arnco-Sargent Elementary School Coweta County | 335 | 72% | 74.3 | −0.7 | |
| 15 | Sam D. Panter Elementary School Paulding County | 507 | 71% | 73.5 | −1.8 | |
| 16 | Mirror Lake Elementary School Douglas County | 462 | 69% | 72.7 | −3.1 | |
| 17 | Mission Road Elementary School Bartow County | 549 | 71% | 71.8 | −3.5 | |
| 18 | Sharp Creek Elementary School Carroll County | 494 | 70% | 69.2 | −6.4 | |
| 19 | Long Branch Elementary School Lumpkin County | 403 | 70% | 69.0 | −6.6 | |
| 20 | Kingston Elementary School Bartow County | 447 | 74% | 63.1 | −11.3 | |
| 21 | Atkinson Elementary School Coweta County | 373 | 66% | 62.4 | −14.3 |
“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's elementary 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 Camden County compares as a system.