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First District RESA
Emanuel County
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Emanuel County compares

A statewide ranking mostly ranks size and affluence. These are the fairer questions: how does this system do against districts of similar size, districts serving similar students, and districts at a similar poverty rate?

Georgia: 43.9%

English Language Arts results for 2025–26 have not been published yet. “All subjects” scores and rankings cover the published subjects only.

Proficient or Distinguished
41.0%
−2.9 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
35th of 71
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
4th of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
+6.9 pts
Typical at 93% ED: 34.1%
Most aligned district
Butts County
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
38.4%
Emanuel County
41.0%+2.6 pts
Tested
2,280 (you: 2,407)
Econ. disadvantaged
95% (you: 93%)
11% SWD · 2% EL · 34% Black · 7% Hisp. · 51% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 71 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Emanuel County on all subjects (2,407 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
City Schools Of Decatur
74.2%
3,574 tested
32
Stephens County
42.6%
2,505 tested
33
Franklin County
42.4%
2,444 tested
34
41.7%
3,356 tested
35
Emanuel County (this district)
41.0%
2,407 tested
36, tied
Pickens County
40.6%
2,516 tested
36, tied
40.6%
1,360 tested
38
Greene County
40.0%
1,659 tested

Emanuel CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

The 20 Georgia districts whose tested populations look most like Emanuel County's — matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Bulloch County17% SWD · 3% EL · 37% Black · 10% Hisp. · 46% White
44.9%
7,056 tested
2
Treutlen County17% SWD · 1% EL · 36% Black · 4% Hisp. · 53% White
43.9%
636 tested
3
Paulding County17% SWD · 4% EL · 32% Black · 15% Hisp. · 45% White
43.2%
20,847 tested
4
Emanuel County (this district)17% SWD · 3% EL · 38% Black · 10% Hisp. · 48% White
41.0%
2,407 tested
5
Wheeler County18% SWD · 5% EL · 36% Black · 8% Hisp. · 56% White
40.7%
447 tested
6
Screven County14% SWD · 1% EL · 44% Black · 5% Hisp. · 47% White
40.6%
1,360 tested
7
Chattahoochee County21% SWD · 0% EL · 32% Black · 13% Hisp. · 45% White
39.9%
486 tested

Emanuel CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 3

Against the poverty trend

Proficiency tracks how many students a district serves in poverty, so a plain ranking partly ranks affluence. This places every Georgia district against the statewide trend — above the line is out-performing districts serving similar student populations.

GOSA has not published enrollment figures for 2025–26 yet, so each district is placed by its 2024–25 poverty rate — the most recent published. Scores are 2025–26’s own.

93% of Emanuel County’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 34.1%; Emanuel County scores 41.0% — +6.9 pts above that trend.

Emanuel CountyGeorgia districtStatewide trend192 districts · poverty explains 44% of the variation · 2024–25 poverty rates

The 15 districts closest in poverty rate

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
vs. trend
1
Haralson County94% economically disadvantaged
57.5%
+23.8 pts vs. poverty trend
2
Berrien County94% economically disadvantaged
48.6%
+14.9 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Wayne County92% economically disadvantaged
41.7%
+7.2 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Gordon County93% economically disadvantaged
41.2%
+7.1 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Emanuel County (this district)93% economically disadvantaged
41.0%
+6.9 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Troup County94% economically disadvantaged
37.0%
+3.3 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Grady County93% economically disadvantaged
36.3%
+2.2 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Fannin County92% economically disadvantaged
36.0%
+1.5 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Walker County94% economically disadvantaged
32.9%
−0.8 pts vs. poverty trend
10
Clarke County93% economically disadvantaged
31.9%
−2.2 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Vidalia City93% economically disadvantaged
24.3%
−9.8 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Macon County93% economically disadvantaged
21.1%
−13.0 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Richmond County93% economically disadvantaged
19.5%
−14.6 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Quitman County93% economically disadvantaged
18.3%
— vs. poverty trend
15
Dooly County94% economically disadvantaged
17.8%
−15.9 pts vs. poverty trend

Emanuel CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)“vs. trend” is coloured only more than one residual standard deviation from the statewide line.Bars run 0–100%.

Source: Georgia Milestones district aggregates published by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, All Students, all grades. “All subjects” weights each subject by students tested. Similar-size bands use the number of students tested rather than enrollment — it is published for every district and is the population the scores actually describe. Demographic peers are the twenty districts whose tested populations look most like this system's own, matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students in EOG Mathematics. The poverty comparison uses the share of enrolled students identified as economically disadvantaged in GOSA's Enrollment by Subgroup Metrics file, fitted against proficiency by least squares across all districts testing at least 200 students. Georgia identifies economically disadvantaged students by direct certification, and districts operating the Community Eligibility Provision report every student as eligible — so the measure compresses at the top and describes the trend, not any individual cause. See every First District system on the statewide ranking.