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First District RESA
Liberty County
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Liberty 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
32.6%
−11.3 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
33rd of 42
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
3rd of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
−3.2 pts
Typical at 89% ED: 35.8%
Most aligned district
Newton County
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
25.2%
Liberty County
32.6%+7.4 pts
Tested
11,678 (you: 6,789)
Econ. disadvantaged
91% (you: 89%)
14% SWD · 5% EL · 63% Black · 12% Hisp. · 18% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 42 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Liberty County on all subjects (6,789 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Oconee County
75.1%
5,682 tested
31
Polk County
34.3%
4,724 tested
32
Walker County
32.9%
5,331 tested
33, tied
Coffee County
32.6%
4,684 tested
33, tied
Liberty County (this district)
32.6%
6,789 tested
35
Clarke County
31.9%
7,416 tested
36
Dougherty County
30.3%
7,831 tested
37
Georgia Connections Academy (Virtua
28.5%
3,590 tested

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

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

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

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Douglas County14% SWD · 9% EL · 56% Black · 23% Hisp. · 12% White
35.4%
16,363 tested
2
Peach County14% SWD · 5% EL · 51% Black · 16% Hisp. · 27% White
33.7%
2,523 tested
3
Liberty County (this district)17% SWD · 2% EL · 56% Black · 13% Hisp. · 18% White
32.6%
6,789 tested
4
Pelham City13% SWD · 3% EL · 58% Black · 7% Hisp. · 31% White
32.4%
692 tested
5
Savannah-Chatham County13% SWD · 11% EL · 54% Black · 19% Hisp. · 18% White
32.1%
23,003 tested
6
Henry County14% SWD · 4% EL · 65% Black · 14% Hisp. · 13% White
30.2%
27,636 tested

Liberty 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.

89% of Liberty County’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 35.8%; Liberty County scores 32.6% — −3.2 pts below that trend.

Liberty 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
Pierce County87% economically disadvantaged
65.3%
+28.7 pts vs. poverty trend
2
Heard County91% economically disadvantaged
59.3%
+24.4 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Bleckley County87% economically disadvantaged
56.4%
+19.8 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Laurens County88% economically disadvantaged
55.7%
+19.5 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Charlton County89% economically disadvantaged
54.3%
+18.5 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Brantley County90% economically disadvantaged
49.5%
+14.1 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Towns County87% economically disadvantaged
49.0%
+12.4 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Rabun County89% economically disadvantaged
48.8%
+13.0 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Habersham County90% economically disadvantaged
47.3%
+11.9 pts vs. poverty trend
10
Madison County87% economically disadvantaged
46.5%
+9.9 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Wilcox County89% economically disadvantaged
46.2%
+10.4 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Bulloch County87% economically disadvantaged
44.9%
+8.3 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Liberty County (this district)89% economically disadvantaged
32.6%
−3.2 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Sankofa Montessori90% economically disadvantaged
23.5%
— vs. poverty trend
15
Twiggs County90% economically disadvantaged
16.3%
−19.1 pts vs. poverty trend

Liberty 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.