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Jeff Davis County
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Jeff Davis 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
48.5%
+4.6 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
15th of 68
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
11th of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
+16.5 pts
Typical at 98% ED: 32.0%
Most aligned district
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
53.9%
Jeff Davis County
48.5%−5.4 pts
Tested
2,195 (you: 2,087)
Econ. disadvantaged
99% (you: 98%)
15% SWD · 8% EL · 18% Black · 23% Hisp. · 54% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 68 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Jeff Davis County on all subjects (2,087 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Academy For Classical Education
72.0%
1,291 tested
13
Rabun County
48.8%
1,426 tested
14
Berrien County
48.6%
1,898 tested
15, tied
Gilmer County
48.5%
2,697 tested
15, tied
Jeff Davis County (this district)
48.5%
2,087 tested
17
Bacon County
47.9%
1,377 tested
18
Cartersville City
47.6%
3,050 tested
19
Jones County
47.3%
3,092 tested

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

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

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

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Buford City12% SWD · 8% EL · 11% Black · 25% Hisp. · 46% White
72.7%
4,072 tested
8
Northwest Classical Academy15% SWD · 5% EL · 18% Black · 15% Hisp. · 57% White
52.8%
702 tested
9
Walton County14% SWD · 6% EL · 25% Black · 15% Hisp. · 51% White
49.8%
9,707 tested
10
Carroll County16% SWD · 4% EL · 19% Black · 13% Hisp. · 59% White
48.7%
10,850 tested
11
Jeff Davis County (this district)13% SWD · 8% EL · 14% Black · 24% Hisp. · 56% White
48.5%
2,087 tested
12
Bacon County20% SWD · 9% EL · 24% Black · 17% Hisp. · 55% White
47.9%
1,377 tested
13
Sail Charter Academy - School For A20% SWD · 1% EL · 17% Black · 16% Hisp. · 52% White
47.8%
467 tested
14
Cartersville City11% SWD · 9% EL · 20% Black · 24% Hisp. · 48% White
47.6%
3,050 tested

Jeff Davis 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.

98% of Jeff Davis County’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 32.0%; Jeff Davis County scores 48.5% — +16.5 pts above that trend.

Jeff Davis 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
Appling County99% economically disadvantaged
53.9%
+22.3 pts vs. poverty trend
2
Jeff Davis County (this district)98% economically disadvantaged
48.5%
+16.5 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Lanier County99% economically disadvantaged
48.3%
+16.7 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Bacon County97% economically disadvantaged
47.9%
+15.5 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Treutlen County99% economically disadvantaged
43.9%
+12.3 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Tift County97% economically disadvantaged
40.5%
+8.1 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Irwin County98% economically disadvantaged
39.7%
+7.7 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Elbert County98% economically disadvantaged
35.2%
+3.2 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Peach County98% economically disadvantaged
33.7%
+1.7 pts vs. poverty trend
10
Wilkes County98% economically disadvantaged
31.6%
−0.4 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Dougherty County98% economically disadvantaged
30.3%
−1.7 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Marion County98% economically disadvantaged
29.2%
−2.8 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Meriwether County98% economically disadvantaged
27.7%
−4.3 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Sumter County98% economically disadvantaged
17.9%
−14.1 pts vs. poverty trend
15
Liberation Academy98% economically disadvantaged
6.5%
−25.5 pts vs. poverty trend

Jeff Davis 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.