Houston County High School
Houston County
92.8+19.4 vs. you
+11.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
2,052 students · 93% of your size
ED 42%·SWD 14%·EL 6%·Black 31%·Hisp. 10%·White 41%
Effingham County High School
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like Effingham County High School
Every Georgia high 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
73.4
2024–25 · 2,203 students
Among its look-alikes
14th
of 21 high schools serving similar students · median 78.6
Economically disadvantaged
48%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
−6.3 pts
Georgia's high schools at 48% average 79.7
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
Look-alike schools that score higher than Effingham County High School and higher than Georgia's high 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.
Seckinger High School
Gwinnett County
90.7+17.3 vs. you
+10.0 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
2,319 students · 105% of your size
ED 44%·SWD 11%·EL 11%·Black 29%·Hisp. 21%·White 26%
Camden County High School
Camden County
88.6+15.2 vs. you
+7.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
2,918 students · 132% of your size
ED 43%·SWD 17%·EL 1%·Black 23%·Hisp. 9%·White 57%
Veterans High School
Houston County
87.3+13.9 vs. you
+5.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,940 students · 88% of your size
ED 40%·SWD 12%·EL 1%·Black 31%·Hisp. 9%·White 51%
Wheeler High School
Cobb County
84.1+10.7 vs. you
+4.7 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
2,401 students · 109% of your size
ED 49%·SWD 11%·EL 16%·Black 33%·Hisp. 26%·White 23%
The comparison group
The 20 schools most like this one
Georgia high schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 65 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
Rank
School
CCRPI single score
Students
ED
vs. expected
1
Houston County High SchoolHouston County
92.8
2,052 students
42% econ. disadvantaged
+11.6 vs. expected
2
Seckinger High SchoolGwinnett County
90.7
2,319 students
44% econ. disadvantaged
+10.0 vs. expected
4
Veterans High SchoolHouston County
87.3
1,940 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
+5.5 vs. expected
5
Wheeler High SchoolCobb County
84.1
2,401 students
49% econ. disadvantaged
+4.7 vs. expected
6
North Cobb High SchoolCobb County
81.7
2,466 students
50% econ. disadvantaged
+2.6 vs. expected
7
Loganville High SchoolWalton County
81.4
1,912 students
44% econ. disadvantaged
+0.7 vs. expected
8
Newnan High SchoolCoweta County
80.7
2,218 students
49% econ. disadvantaged
+1.3 vs. expected
9
Carrollton High SchoolCarrollton City
80.2
1,859 students
50% econ. disadvantaged
+1.1 vs. expected
10
South Effingham High SchoolEffingham County
79.6
1,906 students
39% econ. disadvantaged
−2.4 vs. expected
11
Sprayberry High SchoolCobb County
78.6
1,773 students
49% econ. disadvantaged
−0.8 vs. expected
12
Lee County High SchoolLee County
77.5
1,348 students
50% econ. disadvantaged
−1.6 vs. expected
13
Lakeside High SchoolDeKalb County
77.3
2,235 students
47% econ. disadvantaged
−2.6 vs. expected
14, tied
Grovetown High SchoolColumbia County
73.4
2,256 students
44% econ. disadvantaged
−7.3 vs. expected
14, tied
Jackson County High SchoolJackson County
73.4
2,228 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
−8.4 vs. expected
14, tied
Effingham County High School (this school)Effingham County
73.4
2,203 students
48% econ. disadvantaged
−6.3 vs. expected
17
Lanier High SchoolGwinnett County
72.4
1,872 students
45% econ. disadvantaged
−8.0 vs. expected
18
East Paulding High SchoolPaulding County
71.5
1,991 students
49% econ. disadvantaged
−7.9 vs. expected
19
South Paulding High SchoolPaulding County
70.3
1,883 students
47% econ. disadvantaged
−9.6 vs. expected
20
Alexander High SchoolDouglas County
69.4
1,832 students
52% econ. disadvantaged
−9.2 vs. expected
21
Winder-Barrow High SchoolBarrow County
68.4
1,871 students
51% econ. disadvantaged
−10.5 vs. expected
This schoolOther schools“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's high 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 high 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 Effingham County compares as a system.