Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet
Dougherty County
+31.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
478 students · 99% of your size
ED 96%·SWD 1%·EL 4%·Black 86%·Hisp. 6%·White 3%
Every Georgia middle 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.
2024–25 · 484 students
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 61.0
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's middle schools at 94% average 68.1
Look-alike schools that score higher than DeRenne Middle School and higher than Georgia's middle 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.
Dougherty County
+31.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
478 students · 99% of your size
ED 96%·SWD 1%·EL 4%·Black 86%·Hisp. 6%·White 3%
Muscogee County
+0.7 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
455 students · 94% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 19%·EL 3%·Black 64%·Hisp. 10%·White 15%
Georgia middle schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 125 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet Dougherty County | 478 | 96% | 98.7 | +31.1 | |
| 2 | MacIntyre Park Middle School Thomasville City | 530 | 96% | 67.6 | +0.0 | |
| 3 | Bacon County Middle School Bacon County | 464 | 92% | 67.5 | −1.2 | |
| 4 | Veterans Memorial Middle School Newton County | 637 | 96% | 67.4 | −0.2 | |
| 5 | Midland Middle School Muscogee County | 455 | 100% | 67.2 | +0.7 | |
| 6 | Columbia Middle School DeKalb County | 571 | 100% | 65.6 | −0.9 | |
| 7 | Adamson Middle School Clayton County | 509 | 100% | 63.8 | −2.7 | |
| 8 | East Columbus Magnet Academy Muscogee County | 395 | 97% | 63.3 | −4.0 | |
| 9 | Fort Middle School Muscogee County | 440 | 100% | 62.8 | −3.7 | |
| 10 | Chapel Hill Middle School DeKalb County | 614 | 100% | 61.2 | −5.3 | |
| 11 | Brooks County Middle School Brooks County | 490 | 100% | 61.0 | −5.5 | |
| 12 | T. J. Elder Middle School Washington County | 590 | 90% | 60.8 | −8.4 | |
| 13 | Miller Grove Middle School DeKalb County | 625 | 100% | 58.6 | −7.9 | |
| 14 | Riverdale Middle School Clayton County | 560 | 100% | 57.6 | −8.9 | |
| 15 | DeRenne Middle SchoolThis school Savannah-Chatham County | 484 | 94% | 57.2 | −10.9 | |
| 16 | Rothschild Leadership Academy School Muscogee County | 498 | 100% | 57.0 | −9.5 | |
| 17 | Savannah-Chatham County | 567 | 88% | 56.9 | −12.9 | |
| 18 | Vidalia City | 500 | 98% | 55.3 | −11.8 | |
| 19 | Savannah-Chatham County | 503 | 93% | 52.2 | −16.2 | |
| 20 | Savannah-Chatham County | 471 | 91% | 52.1 | −16.9 | |
| 21 | Murphey Middle School Richmond County | 512 | 100% | 50.6 | −15.9 |
“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's middle schools average at its poverty rate. Positive means it is getting more out of a similar student population than the state typically does.
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 Savannah-Chatham County compares as a system.