Houston County High School
Houston County
92.8+13.2 vs. you
+11.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
2,052 students · 108% of your size
ED 42%·SWD 14%·EL 6%·Black 31%·Hisp. 10%·White 41%
South Effingham High School
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like South Effingham 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
79.6
2024–25 · 1,906 students
Among its look-alikes
14th
of 21 high schools serving similar students · median 83.1
Economically disadvantaged
39%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
−2.4 pts
Georgia's high schools at 39% average 82.0
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
Look-alike schools that score higher than South Effingham 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.
Buford High School
Buford City
91.0+11.4 vs. you
+7.9 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,969 students · 103% of your size
ED 35%·SWD 8%·EL 10%·Black 13%·Hisp. 28%·White 44%
Ola High School
Henry County
89.5+9.9 vs. you
+7.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,588 students · 83% of your size
ED 39%·SWD 18%·EL 2%·Black 37%·Hisp. 10%·White 45%
River Ridge High School
Cherokee County
90.9+11.3 vs. you
+6.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,905 students · 100% of your size
ED 30%·SWD 12%·EL 7%·Black 7%·Hisp. 23%·White 61%
Woodstock High School
Cherokee County
89.6+10.0 vs. you
+6.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
2,008 students · 105% of your size
ED 34%·SWD 13%·EL 10%·Black 13%·Hisp. 23%·White 55%
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. 61 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
Buford High SchoolBuford City
91.0
1,969 students
35% econ. disadvantaged
+7.9 vs. expected
3
River Ridge High SchoolCherokee County
90.9
1,905 students
30% econ. disadvantaged
+6.5 vs. expected
4
Woodstock High SchoolCherokee County
89.6
2,008 students
34% econ. disadvantaged
+6.3 vs. expected
5
Ola High SchoolHenry County
89.5
1,588 students
39% econ. disadvantaged
+7.5 vs. expected
6
Veterans High SchoolHouston County
87.3
1,940 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
+5.5 vs. expected
7
Walnut Grove High SchoolWalton County
86.7
1,513 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
+4.9 vs. expected
8
Harris County High SchoolHarris County
85.5
1,733 students
35% econ. disadvantaged
+2.4 vs. expected
9
Riverwood International Charter SchoolFulton County
83.5
1,737 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
+1.7 vs. expected
10
Lakeside High SchoolColumbia County
83.2
1,862 students
30% econ. disadvantaged
−1.2 vs. expected
11
Northgate High SchoolCoweta County
83.1
2,143 students
32% econ. disadvantaged
−0.8 vs. expected
12
East Forsyth High SchoolForsyth County
82.4
1,589 students
35% econ. disadvantaged
−0.7 vs. expected
13
Loganville High SchoolWalton County
81.4
1,912 students
44% econ. disadvantaged
+0.7 vs. expected
14
South Effingham High School (this school)Effingham County
79.6
1,906 students
39% econ. disadvantaged
−2.4 vs. expected
15
Villa Rica High SchoolCarroll County
76.2
1,684 students
37% econ. disadvantaged
−6.3 vs. expected
16
Evans High SchoolColumbia County
75.2
1,803 students
39% econ. disadvantaged
−6.8 vs. expected
17
Central High SchoolCarroll County
74.5
1,338 students
38% econ. disadvantaged
−7.8 vs. expected
18
Jackson County High SchoolJackson County
73.4
2,228 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
−8.4 vs. expected
19
Jones County High SchoolJones County
71.5
1,614 students
38% econ. disadvantaged
−10.8 vs. expected
20
Harlem High SchoolColumbia County
71.3
1,319 students
42% econ. disadvantaged
−9.9 vs. expected
21
South Paulding High SchoolPaulding County
70.3
1,883 students
47% econ. disadvantaged
−9.6 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.