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Smiley Elementary School
CCRPI · 2024–25

Schools like Smiley Elementary School

Every Georgia elementary 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.

CCRPI single score
78.8

2024–25 · 765 students

Among its look-alikes
7th

of 21 elementary schools serving similar students · median 73.5

Economically disadvantaged
77%

Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification

Against schools at that rate
+5.2 pts

Georgia's elementary schools at 77% average 73.6

Where to look next

Schools worth visiting

Look-alike schools that score higher than Smiley Elementary School and higher than Georgia's elementary 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.

Pine Grove Elementary School

Lowndes County

87.6+8.8 vs. you

+14.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts

683 students · 89% of your size

ED 78%·SWD 18%·EL 3%·Black 29%·Hisp. 12%·White 49%

Northwest Laurens Elementary

Laurens County

86.9+8.1 vs. you

+13.9 pts above what its poverty rate predicts

810 students · 106% of your size

ED 79%·SWD 12%·EL 4%·Black 26%·Hisp. 4%·White 61%

North Columbus Elementary

Muscogee County

84.3+5.5 vs. you

+11.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts

698 students · 91% of your size

ED 80%·SWD 16%·EL 7%·Black 42%·Hisp. 13%·White 26%

Lovin Elementary School

Gwinnett County

84.0+5.2 vs. you

+9.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts

802 students · 105% of your size

ED 74%·SWD 18%·EL 18%·Black 52%·Hisp. 27%·White 12%

Bill Arp Elementary School

Douglas County

79.1+0.3 vs. you

+5.8 pts above what its poverty rate predicts

645 students · 84% of your size

ED 78%·SWD 19%·EL 12%·Black 42%·Hisp. 27%·White 21%

The comparison group

The 20 schools most like this one

Georgia elementary schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 192 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.

Rank
School
CCRPI single score
Students
ED
vs. expected
1
Pine Grove Elementary SchoolLowndes County
87.6
683 students
78% econ. disadvantaged
+14.3 vs. expected
2
Northwest Laurens ElementaryLaurens County
86.9
810 students
79% econ. disadvantaged
+13.9 vs. expected
3
North Columbus ElementaryMuscogee County
84.3
698 students
80% econ. disadvantaged
+11.5 vs. expected
4
Lovin Elementary SchoolGwinnett County
84.0
802 students
74% econ. disadvantaged
+9.6 vs. expected
5
Quail Run Elementary SchoolHouston County
79.5
585 students
75% econ. disadvantaged
+5.3 vs. expected
6
Bill Arp Elementary SchoolDouglas County
79.1
645 students
78% econ. disadvantaged
+5.8 vs. expected
7
Smiley Elementary School (this school)Long County
78.8
765 students
77% econ. disadvantaged
+5.2 vs. expected
8
77.3
638 students
79% econ. disadvantaged
+4.3 vs. expected
9
Partee Elementary SchoolGwinnett County
76.1
752 students
78% econ. disadvantaged
+2.8 vs. expected
10
Dewar ElementaryLowndes County
73.9
782 students
76% econ. disadvantaged
+0.0 vs. expected
11
Winder Elementary SchoolBarrow County
73.5
622 students
74% econ. disadvantaged
−0.9 vs. expected
12
West Chatham Elementary SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
73.0
699 students
77% econ. disadvantaged
−0.6 vs. expected
13
Eagle Ridge AcademyMuscogee County
72.2
574 students
76% econ. disadvantaged
−1.7 vs. expected
14
71.1
694 students
80% econ. disadvantaged
−1.7 vs. expected
15
David A. Perdue PrimaryHouston County
67.9
557 students
74% econ. disadvantaged
−6.5 vs. expected
16
Annistown Elementary SchoolGwinnett County
66.6
686 students
78% econ. disadvantaged
−6.7 vs. expected
17
63.9
720 students
76% econ. disadvantaged
−10.0 vs. expected
18
Southwest Elementary SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
63.0
692 students
77% econ. disadvantaged
−10.6 vs. expected
19
Monroe ElementaryWalton County
60.7
562 students
79% econ. disadvantaged
−12.3 vs. expected
20
Allgood Elementary SchoolPaulding County
60.6
804 students
73% econ. disadvantaged
−14.1 vs. expected
21
Eastside Elementary SchoolPolk County
60.5
695 students
75% econ. disadvantaged
−13.7 vs. expected

This schoolOther schools“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's elementary 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

Every Georgia elementary school, by poverty rate

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.

Smiley Elementary SchoolIts look-alikesGeorgia elementary schoolStatewide trend1206 schools · poverty explains 44% of the variation

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 Long County compares as a system.