West Laurens High School
Laurens County
+11.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,266 students · 106% of your size
ED 70%·SWD 11%·EL 1%·Black 26%·Hisp. 5%·White 64%
Every Georgia high 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.
2024–25 · 1,192 students
of 21 high schools serving similar students · median 71.1
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's high schools at 74% average 72.8
Where to look next
Look-alike schools that score higher than Liberty County High School and higher than Georgia's high 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.
Laurens County
+11.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,266 students · 106% of your size
ED 70%·SWD 11%·EL 1%·Black 26%·Hisp. 5%·White 64%
Newton County
+9.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,591 students · 133% of your size
ED 69%·SWD 11%·EL 3%·Black 45%·Hisp. 11%·White 38%
Calhoun City
+8.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,282 students · 108% of your size
ED 76%·SWD 10%·EL 18%·Black 8%·Hisp. 41%·White 45%
Long County
+8.2 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,353 students · 114% of your size
ED 74%·SWD 12%·EL 4%·Black 30%·Hisp. 19%·White 39%
Screven County
+7.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
609 students · 51% of your size
ED 75%·SWD 12%·EL 1%·Black 52%·Hisp. 3%·White 43%
The comparison group
Georgia high schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 50 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
This schoolOther schools“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's high 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
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 Liberty County compares as a system.