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First District RESA
Long County
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Long 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
36.0%
−7.9 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
49th of 67
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
15th of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
−4.8 pts
Typical at 77% ED: 40.8%
Most aligned district
Greene County
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
40.0%
Long County
36.0%−4.0 pts
Tested
1,659 (you: 3,023)
Econ. disadvantaged
83% (you: 77%)
16% SWD · 6% EL · 35% Black · 18% Hisp. · 40% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 67 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Long County on all subjects (3,023 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
City Schools Of Decatur
74.2%
3,574 tested
47
Putnam County
36.5%
1,821 tested
48
Grady County
36.3%
2,746 tested
49, tied
Fannin County
36.0%
1,767 tested
49, tied
Long County (this district)
36.0%
3,023 tested
51
Elbert County
35.2%
1,871 tested
52
Peach County
33.7%
2,523 tested
53
Lamar County
32.8%
1,874 tested

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

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

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

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Fayette County13% SWD · 5% EL · 29% Black · 15% Hisp. · 41% White
67.9%
13,107 tested
12
Cook County14% SWD · 5% EL · 30% Black · 13% Hisp. · 48% White
37.7%
1,865 tested
13
Candler County15% SWD · 5% EL · 26% Black · 22% Hisp. · 48% White
36.9%
1,342 tested
14
Putnam County13% SWD · 10% EL · 35% Black · 21% Hisp. · 40% White
36.5%
1,821 tested
15
Long County (this district)15% SWD · 4% EL · 28% Black · 19% Hisp. · 41% White
36.0%
3,023 tested
16
Four Points Preparatory Academy15% SWD · 9% EL · 38% Black · 18% Hisp. · 39% White
35.4%
206 tested
17
Elbert County16% SWD · 4% EL · 34% Black · 12% Hisp. · 47% White
35.2%
1,871 tested
18, tied
Montgomery County21% SWD · 3% EL · 27% Black · 19% Hisp. · 47% White
32.7%
544 tested

Long 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.

77% of Long County’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 40.8%; Long County scores 36.0% — −4.8 pts below that trend.

Long 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
Resurgence Hall Charter School71% economically disadvantaged
76.5%
— vs. poverty trend
2
Resurgence Hall Middle Academy76% economically disadvantaged
60.4%
+19.2 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Lowndes County75% economically disadvantaged
59.6%
+18.0 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Houston County74% economically disadvantaged
50.3%
+8.3 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Union County82% economically disadvantaged
46.1%
+7.4 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Screven County79% economically disadvantaged
40.6%
+0.7 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Greene County83% economically disadvantaged
40.0%
+1.7 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Chattahoochee County71% economically disadvantaged
39.9%
−3.3 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Atlanta Public Schools74% economically disadvantaged
38.4%
−3.6 pts vs. poverty trend
10
Long County (this district)77% economically disadvantaged
36.0%
−4.8 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Polk County77% economically disadvantaged
34.3%
−6.5 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Mitchell County81% economically disadvantaged
34.0%
−5.1 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Savannah-Chatham County73% economically disadvantaged
32.1%
−10.3 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Ivy Preparatory Academy, Inc79% economically disadvantaged
30.5%
−9.4 pts vs. poverty trend
15
Dekalb County81% economically disadvantaged
29.9%
−9.2 pts vs. poverty trend

Long 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.