Bonaire Middle School
Houston County
+10.2 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,151 students · 106% of your size
ED 40%·SWD 14%·EL 2%·Black 25%·Hisp. 10%·White 53%
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 · 1,082 students
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 78.6
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's middle schools at 48% average 80.6
Look-alike schools that score higher than Saint Marys 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.
Houston County
+10.2 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,151 students · 106% of your size
ED 40%·SWD 14%·EL 2%·Black 25%·Hisp. 10%·White 53%
Effingham County
+7.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,161 students · 107% of your size
ED 42%·SWD 13%·EL 7%·Black 13%·Hisp. 15%·White 63%
Gwinnett County
+7.0 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,239 students · 115% of your size
ED 49%·SWD 12%·EL 21%·Black 28%·Hisp. 22%·White 23%
Cherokee County
+5.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,075 students · 99% of your size
ED 42%·SWD 15%·EL 17%·Black 15%·Hisp. 27%·White 46%
Houston County
+4.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
797 students · 74% of your size
ED 44%·SWD 17%·EL 4%·Black 26%·Hisp. 9%·White 54%
Georgia middle schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 62 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonaire Middle School Houston County | 1,151 | 40% | 92.9 | +10.2 | |
| 2 | Effingham County | 1,161 | 42% | 89.3 | +7.1 | |
| 3 | Woodstock Middle School Cherokee County | 1,075 | 42% | 87.7 | +5.5 | |
| 4 | Five Forks Middle School Gwinnett County | 1,239 | 49% | 87.3 | +7.0 | |
| 5 | Mossy Creek Middle School Houston County | 797 | 44% | 85.8 | +4.1 | |
| 6 | Evans Middle School Columbia County | 1,031 | 46% | 84.9 | +3.8 | |
| 7 | Camden County | 1,083 | 56% | 82.3 | +3.9 | |
| 8 | Saint Marys Middle SchoolThis school Camden County | 1,082 | 48% | 80.6 | +0.0 | |
| 9 | Youth Middle School Walton County | 1,183 | 47% | 80.0 | −0.8 | |
| 10 | Harlem Middle School Columbia County | 1,026 | 45% | 79.1 | −2.3 | |
| 11 | Monroe County Middle School, Banks Stephens Campus Monroe County | 1,062 | 50% | 78.6 | −1.4 | |
| 12 | Ola Middle School Henry County | 1,039 | 45% | 78.1 | −3.3 | |
| 13 | Columbia Middle School Columbia County | 903 | 44% | 77.4 | −4.3 | |
| 14 | Effingham County | 1,039 | 45% | 77.0 | −4.4 | |
| 15 | Morgan County Middle School Morgan County | 751 | 48% | 76.7 | −3.9 | |
| 16 | Cartersville Middle School Cartersville City | 1,081 | 55% | 75.8 | −2.9 | |
| 17 | Effingham County | 1,151 | 57% | 75.3 | −2.8 | |
| 18 | Otwell Middle School Forsyth County | 1,062 | 46% | 75.1 | −6.0 | |
| 19 | East Paulding Middle School Paulding County | 632 | 46% | 74.2 | −6.9 | |
| 20 | Temple Middle School Carroll County | 684 | 45% | 72.8 | −8.6 | |
| 21 | Lena Mae Moses Middle School Paulding County | 923 | 48% | 66.4 | −14.2 |
“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 Camden County compares as a system.