Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet
Dougherty County
98.7+41.5 vs. you
+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%
DeRenne Middle School
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like DeRenne Middle School
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.
Ranked on CCRPI rather than Milestones, because CCRPI is the one score Georgia publishes for every school in the state.
CCRPI single score
57.2
2024–25 · 484 students
Among its look-alikes
15th
of 21 middle schools serving similar students · median 61.0
Economically disadvantaged
94%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
−10.9 pts
Georgia's middle schools at 94% average 68.1
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
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.
Midland Middle School
Muscogee County
67.2+10.0 vs. you
+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%
The comparison group
The 20 schools most like this one
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.
Rank
School
CCRPI single score
Students
ED
vs. expected
1
Robert A. Cross Middle MagnetDougherty County
98.7
478 students
96% econ. disadvantaged
+31.1 vs. expected
2
MacIntyre Park Middle SchoolThomasville City
67.6
530 students
96% econ. disadvantaged
+0.0 vs. expected
3
Bacon County Middle SchoolBacon County
67.5
464 students
92% econ. disadvantaged
−1.2 vs. expected
4
Veterans Memorial Middle SchoolNewton County
67.4
637 students
96% econ. disadvantaged
−0.2 vs. expected
5
Midland Middle SchoolMuscogee County
67.2
455 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
+0.7 vs. expected
6
Columbia Middle SchoolDeKalb County
65.6
571 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−0.9 vs. expected
7
Adamson Middle SchoolClayton County
63.8
509 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−2.7 vs. expected
8
East Columbus Magnet AcademyMuscogee County
63.3
395 students
97% econ. disadvantaged
−4.0 vs. expected
9
Fort Middle SchoolMuscogee County
62.8
440 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−3.7 vs. expected
10
Chapel Hill Middle SchoolDeKalb County
61.2
614 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−5.3 vs. expected
11
Brooks County Middle SchoolBrooks County
61.0
490 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−5.5 vs. expected
12
T. J. Elder Middle SchoolWashington County
60.8
590 students
90% econ. disadvantaged
−8.4 vs. expected
13
Miller Grove Middle SchoolDeKalb County
58.6
625 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−7.9 vs. expected
14
Riverdale Middle SchoolClayton County
57.6
560 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−8.9 vs. expected
15
DeRenne Middle School (this school)Savannah-Chatham County
57.2
484 students
94% econ. disadvantaged
−10.9 vs. expected
16
Rothschild Leadership Academy SchoolMuscogee County
57.0
498 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−9.5 vs. expected
17
Oglethorpe Charter SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
56.9
567 students
88% econ. disadvantaged
−12.9 vs. expected
19
Myers Middle SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
52.2
503 students
93% econ. disadvantaged
−16.2 vs. expected
20
Hubert Middle SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
52.1
471 students
91% econ. disadvantaged
−16.9 vs. expected
21
Murphey Middle SchoolRichmond County
50.6
512 students
100% econ. disadvantaged
−15.9 vs. expected
This schoolOther schools“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.Bars run 0–100.
The whole state
Every Georgia middle 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.
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.