Wadsworth Magnet School for High Achievers
DeKalb County
+21.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
273 students · 72% of your size
ED 61%·SWD 0%·EL 4%·Black 82%·Hisp. 6%·White 6%
Every Georgia K-8 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 · 379 students
of 17 K-8 schools serving similar students · median 83.1
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's K-8 schools at 42% average 80.3
Look-alike schools that score higher than Ellis Elementary School and higher than Georgia's K-8 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.
DeKalb County
+21.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
273 students · 72% of your size
ED 61%·SWD 0%·EL 4%·Black 82%·Hisp. 6%·White 6%
Commerce City
+11.4 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
579 students · 153% of your size
ED 61%·SWD 15%·EL 12%·Black 10%·Hisp. 18%·White 63%
Newton County
+10.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,095 students · 289% of your size
ED 52%·SWD 5%·EL 2%·Black 46%·Hisp. 8%·White 39%
Savannah-Chatham County
+9.0 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
750 students · 198% of your size
ED 51%·SWD 9%·EL 1%·Black 51%·Hisp. 10%·White 25%
Fulton County
+8.4 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
667 students · 176% of your size
ED 48%·SWD 7%·EL 21%·Black 35%·Hisp. 15%·White 19%
Georgia K-8 schools within 20 points of this one's poverty rate, a third to three times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 16 schools cleared that bar; these are the 16 nearest by the students they serve. The size and poverty match had to be loosened — too few schools met the tighter one.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wadsworth Magnet School for High Achievers DeKalb County | 273 | 61% | 98.7 | +21.6 | |
| 2 | Newton County Theme School at Ficquett Newton County | 1,095 | 52% | 88.9 | +10.3 | |
| 3 | Commerce Middle School Commerce City | 579 | 61% | 88.5 | +11.4 | |
| 4 | Amana Academy School Fulton County | 667 | 48% | 87.7 | +8.4 | |
| 5 | Savannah-Chatham County | 750 | 51% | 87.7 | +9.0 | |
| 6 | Brookhaven Innovation Academy State Specialty Schools II- Brookhaven Innovation Academy | 524 | 26% | 85.3 | +2.3 | |
| 7 | Savannah-Chatham County | 432 | 33% | 85.0 | +3.2 | |
| 8 | Museum School Avondale Estates DeKalb County | 588 | 36% | 84.1 | +2.8 | |
| 9 | Creekside School Harris County | 781 | 38% | 83.1 | +2.2 | |
| 10 | GLOBE Academy Charter School I DeKalb County | 1,093 | 30% | 78.9 | −3.4 | |
| 11 | Brighten Academy Douglas County | 812 | 35% | 75.8 | −5.7 | |
| 12 | Westside Atlanta Charter School Atlanta Public Schools | 349 | 55% | 74.3 | −3.8 | |
| 13 | Main Street Charter Academy Fulton County | 817 | 46% | 73.8 | −5.8 | |
| 14 | Model Middle School Floyd County | 523 | 47% | 73.7 | −5.7 | |
| 15 | Ellis Elementary SchoolThis school Savannah-Chatham County | 379 | 42% | 69.3 | −11.0 | |
| 16 | Odyssey Charter School State Specialty Schools I- Odyssey Charter School | 359 | 48% | 68.7 | −10.6 | |
| 17 | Jasper Middle School Pickens County | 573 | 61% | 61.0 | −16.1 |
“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's K-8 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.