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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
Among similar size
34th of 42
Districts testing a similar number of students
Among demographic peers
3rd of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. similar 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 tested), ranked by score.

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Oconee County75.1%
2City Schools Of Decatur74.2%
3Buford City72.7%
4Bryan County60.9%
5Lowndes County59.6%
6Harris County59.2%
7Camden County58.9%
8Floyd County56.8%
9Effingham County56.7%
10Laurens County55.7%
11Lee County55.3%
12Jackson County55.0%
13Marietta City51.5%
14Walton County49.8%
15Catoosa County49.4%
16Habersham County47.3%
17Glynn County47.1%18Bulloch County44.9%
19Colquitt County44.7%
20Carrollton City43.7%
21Bartow County43.6%
22Gordon County41.2%
23Tift County40.5%
24Whitfield County39.9%
25Dalton Public Schools39.8%
26Murray County39.8%
27Ware County39.8%
28Troup County37.0%
29Thomas County36.9%
30Rome City36.6%
31Polk County34.3%
32Walker County32.9%
33Coffee County32.6%
34Liberty County32.6%
35Clarke County31.9%
36Dougherty County30.3%
37Georgia Connections Academy (Virtua28.5%
38Gainesville City28.2%
39Rockdale County27.2%
40Valdosta City26.4%
41Griffin-Spalding County24.6%
42Georgia Cyber Academy (Virtual)22.9%

Georgia averageBars 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.

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Douglas County14% SWD · 9% EL · 56% Black · 23% Hisp. · 12% White35.4%
2Peach County14% SWD · 5% EL · 51% Black · 16% Hisp. · 27% White33.7%
3Liberty County17% SWD · 2% EL · 56% Black · 13% Hisp. · 18% White32.6%
4Pelham City13% SWD · 3% EL · 58% Black · 7% Hisp. · 31% White32.4%
5Savannah-Chatham County13% SWD · 11% EL · 54% Black · 19% Hisp. · 18% White32.1%
6Henry County14% SWD · 4% EL · 65% Black · 14% Hisp. · 13% White30.2%
7Decatur County11% SWD · 4% EL · 55% Black · 13% Hisp. · 28% White29.7%
8Rocky Creek Charter Academy14% SWD · 53% Black · 11% Hisp. · 29% White29.2%
9Muscogee County16% SWD · 5% EL · 58% Black · 14% Hisp. · 18% White28.2%
10Jefferson County13% SWD · 4% EL · 68% Black · 10% Hisp. · 19% White25.8%
11Newton County14% SWD · 5% EL · 63% Black · 12% Hisp. · 18% White25.2%
12Mcduffie County19% SWD · 3% EL · 58% Black · 6% Hisp. · 30% White24.9%
13Griffin-Spalding County15% SWD · 6% EL · 54% Black · 15% Hisp. · 25% White24.6%
14Burke County13% SWD · 1% EL · 64% Black · 6% Hisp. · 25% White24.5%
15Vidalia City18% SWD · 4% EL · 52% Black · 10% Hisp. · 32% White24.3%
16Wilkinson County14% SWD · 4% EL · 56% Black · 8% Hisp. · 27% White24.2%
17Baldwin County15% SWD · 3% EL · 65% Black · 7% Hisp. · 22% White23.2%
18Georgia Cyber Academy (Virtual)19% SWD · 2% EL · 47% Black · 13% Hisp. · 29% White22.9%
19Crisp County17% SWD · 4% EL · 59% Black · 8% Hisp. · 27% White21.6%
20Baker County24% SWD · 9% EL · 60% Black · 12% Hisp. · 23% White20.6%
21Taliaferro County17% SWD · 13% EL · 55% Black · 14% Hisp. · 26% White3.2%

Georgia averageBars 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

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Pierce County87% economically disadvantaged65.3%
2Heard County91% economically disadvantaged59.3%
3Bleckley County87% economically disadvantaged56.4%
4Laurens County88% economically disadvantaged55.7%
5Charlton County89% economically disadvantaged54.3%
6Brantley County90% economically disadvantaged49.5%
7Towns County87% economically disadvantaged49.0%
8Rabun County89% economically disadvantaged48.8%
9Habersham County90% economically disadvantaged47.3%
10Madison County87% economically disadvantaged46.5%
11Wilcox County89% economically disadvantaged46.2%
12Bulloch County87% economically disadvantaged44.9%
13Liberty County89% economically disadvantaged32.6%
14Sankofa Montessori90% economically disadvantaged23.5%
15Twiggs County90% economically disadvantaged16.3%

Georgia averageBars 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.