Bonaire Middle School
Houston County
92.9+12.3 vs. you
+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%
Saint Marys Middle School
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like Saint Marys 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
80.6
2024–25 · 1,082 students
Among its look-alikes
8th
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 78.6
Economically disadvantaged
48%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
+0.0 pts
Georgia's middle schools at 48% average 80.6
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
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.
South Effingham Middle School
Effingham County
89.3+8.7 vs. you
+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%
Five Forks Middle School
Gwinnett County
87.3+6.7 vs. you
+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%
Woodstock Middle School
Cherokee County
87.7+7.1 vs. you
+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%
Mossy Creek Middle School
Houston County
85.8+5.2 vs. you
+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%
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. 62 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
Rank
School
CCRPI single score
Students
ED
vs. expected
1
Bonaire Middle SchoolHouston County
92.9
1,151 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
+10.2 vs. expected
2
South Effingham Middle SchoolEffingham County
89.3
1,161 students
42% econ. disadvantaged
+7.1 vs. expected
3
Woodstock Middle SchoolCherokee County
87.7
1,075 students
42% econ. disadvantaged
+5.5 vs. expected
4
Five Forks Middle SchoolGwinnett County
87.3
1,239 students
49% econ. disadvantaged
+7.0 vs. expected
5
Mossy Creek Middle SchoolHouston County
85.8
797 students
44% econ. disadvantaged
+4.1 vs. expected
6
Evans Middle SchoolColumbia County
84.9
1,031 students
46% econ. disadvantaged
+3.8 vs. expected
8
Saint Marys Middle School (this school)Camden County
80.6
1,082 students
48% econ. disadvantaged
+0.0 vs. expected
9
Youth Middle SchoolWalton County
80.0
1,183 students
47% econ. disadvantaged
−0.8 vs. expected
10
Harlem Middle SchoolColumbia County
79.1
1,026 students
45% econ. disadvantaged
−2.3 vs. expected
11
Monroe County Middle School, Banks Stephens CampusMonroe County
78.6
1,062 students
50% econ. disadvantaged
−1.4 vs. expected
12
Ola Middle SchoolHenry County
78.1
1,039 students
45% econ. disadvantaged
−3.3 vs. expected
13
Columbia Middle SchoolColumbia County
77.4
903 students
44% econ. disadvantaged
−4.3 vs. expected
15
Morgan County Middle SchoolMorgan County
76.7
751 students
48% econ. disadvantaged
−3.9 vs. expected
16
Cartersville Middle SchoolCartersville City
75.8
1,081 students
55% econ. disadvantaged
−2.9 vs. expected
17
Effingham County Middle SchoolEffingham County
75.3
1,151 students
57% econ. disadvantaged
−2.8 vs. expected
18
Otwell Middle SchoolForsyth County
75.1
1,062 students
46% econ. disadvantaged
−6.0 vs. expected
19
East Paulding Middle SchoolPaulding County
74.2
632 students
46% econ. disadvantaged
−6.9 vs. expected
20
Temple Middle SchoolCarroll County
72.8
684 students
45% econ. disadvantaged
−8.6 vs. expected
21
Lena Mae Moses Middle SchoolPaulding County
66.4
923 students
48% econ. disadvantaged
−14.2 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 Camden County compares as a system.