Wadsworth Magnet School for High Achievers
DeKalb County
98.7+11.0 vs. you
+21.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
273 students · 36% of your size
ED 61%·SWD 0%·EL 4%·Black 82%·Hisp. 6%·White 6%
Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts
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.
Ranked on CCRPI rather than Milestones, because CCRPI is the one score Georgia publishes for every school in the state.
CCRPI single score
87.7
2024–25 · 750 students
Among its look-alikes
4th
of 19 K-8 schools serving similar students · median 77.0
Economically disadvantaged
51%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
+9.0 pts
Georgia's K-8 schools at 51% average 78.7
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
Look-alike schools that score higher than Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts 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.
Commerce Middle School
Commerce City
88.5+0.8 vs. you
+11.4 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
579 students · 77% of your size
ED 61%·SWD 15%·EL 12%·Black 10%·Hisp. 18%·White 63%
Newton County Theme School at Ficquett
Newton County
88.9+1.2 vs. you
+10.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,095 students · 146% of your size
ED 52%·SWD 5%·EL 2%·Black 46%·Hisp. 8%·White 39%
The comparison group
The 18 schools most like this one
Georgia K-8 schools within 20 points of this one's poverty rate, a third to three times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 18 schools cleared that bar; these are the 18 nearest by the students they serve. The size and poverty match had to be loosened — too few schools met the tighter one.
Rank
School
CCRPI single score
Students
ED
vs. expected
1
Wadsworth Magnet School for High AchieversDeKalb County
98.7
273 students
61% econ. disadvantaged
+21.6 vs. expected
2
Newton County Theme School at FicquettNewton County
88.9
1,095 students
52% econ. disadvantaged
+10.3 vs. expected
3
Commerce Middle SchoolCommerce City
88.5
579 students
61% econ. disadvantaged
+11.4 vs. expected
4, tied
Amana Academy SchoolFulton County
87.7
667 students
48% econ. disadvantaged
+8.4 vs. expected
4, tied
Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts (this school)Savannah-Chatham County
87.7
750 students
51% econ. disadvantaged
+9.0 vs. expected
6
Tybee Island Maritime Academy SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
85.0
432 students
33% econ. disadvantaged
+3.2 vs. expected
7
Museum School Avondale EstatesDeKalb County
84.1
588 students
36% econ. disadvantaged
+2.8 vs. expected
8
Creekside SchoolHarris County
83.1
781 students
38% econ. disadvantaged
+2.2 vs. expected
9
New Life Academy of ExcellenceGwinnett County
82.4
645 students
66% econ. disadvantaged
+6.2 vs. expected
10
Pepperell Middle SchoolFloyd County
77.0
518 students
68% econ. disadvantaged
+1.1 vs. expected
11
Brighten AcademyDouglas County
75.8
812 students
35% econ. disadvantaged
−5.7 vs. expected
12, tied
Godley Station SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
74.3
1,554 students
61% econ. disadvantaged
−2.8 vs. expected
12, tied
Westside Atlanta Charter SchoolAtlanta Public Schools
74.3
349 students
55% econ. disadvantaged
−3.8 vs. expected
14
Main Street Charter AcademyFulton County
73.8
817 students
46% econ. disadvantaged
−5.8 vs. expected
15
Model Middle SchoolFloyd County
73.7
523 students
47% econ. disadvantaged
−5.7 vs. expected
16
Leadership Preparatory AcademyDeKalb County
70.8
268 students
68% econ. disadvantaged
−5.1 vs. expected
17
Ellis Elementary SchoolSavannah-Chatham County
69.3
379 students
42% econ. disadvantaged
−11.0 vs. expected
18
Odyssey Charter SchoolState Specialty Schools I- Odyssey Charter School
68.7
359 students
48% econ. disadvantaged
−10.6 vs. expected
19
Jasper Middle SchoolPickens County
61.0
573 students
61% econ. disadvantaged
−16.1 vs. expected
This schoolOther schools“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.Bars run 0–100.
The whole state
Every Georgia K-8 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.