Appling County Middle School
Appling County
80.0+0.7 vs. you
+13.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
762 students · 104% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 19%·EL 17%·Black 20%·Hisp. 22%·White 54%
Needwood Middle School
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like Needwood 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
79.3
2024–25 · 736 students
Among its look-alikes
2nd
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 73.6
Economically disadvantaged
94%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
+11.2 pts
Georgia's middle schools at 94% average 68.1
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
Look-alike schools that score higher than Needwood 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.
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. 173 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
Rank
School
CCRPI single score
Students
ED
vs. expected
1
Appling County Middle SchoolAppling County
80.0
762 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
+13.5 vs. expected
2
Needwood Middle School (this school)Glynn County
79.3
736 students
94% econ. disadvantaged
+11.2 vs. expected
3
Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle SchoolClarke County
78.3
712 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
+11.8 vs. expected
4
Hart County Middle SchoolHart County
77.8
835 students
98% econ. disadvantaged
+10.7 vs. expected
5
Thomson Middle SchoolHouston County
77.5
734 students
91% econ. disadvantaged
+8.5 vs. expected
6
Warner Robins Middle SchoolHouston County
75.8
781 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
+9.3 vs. expected
7
Henderson Middle SchoolButts County
74.7
761 students
98% econ. disadvantaged
+7.6 vs. expected
8
North Whitfield Middle SchoolWhitfield County
74.5
731 students
90% econ. disadvantaged
+5.3 vs. expected
10, tied
Waycross Middle SchoolWare County
73.6
607 students
91% econ. disadvantaged
+4.6 vs. expected
10, tied
Betty Gray Middle SchoolCobb County
73.6
702 students
99% econ. disadvantaged
+6.8 vs. expected
12
Bainbridge Middle SchoolDecatur County
70.7
793 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
+4.2 vs. expected
14
Burke County Middle SchoolBurke County
68.3
828 students
99% econ. disadvantaged
+1.5 vs. expected
15
Northeast Middle SchoolTift County
68.1
733 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
+1.6 vs. expected
16
Crisp County Middle SchoolCrisp County
67.4
714 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
+0.9 vs. expected
18
Thomson-McDuffie Middle SchoolMcDuffie County
64.6
668 students
90% econ. disadvantaged
−4.6 vs. expected
19
Langston Chapel Middle SchoolBulloch County
63.0
718 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−3.5 vs. expected
20
Berrien Middle SchoolBerrien County
61.3
674 students
94% econ. disadvantaged
−6.8 vs. expected
21
Indian Creek Middle SchoolNewton County
57.6
843 students
99% econ. disadvantaged
−9.2 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 Glynn County compares as a system.