Barrow Arts and Sciences Academy
Barrow County
94.2+18.5 vs. you
+14.3 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
967 students · 128% of your size
ED 47%·SWD 7%·EL 6%·Black 12%·Hisp. 23%·White 54%
Islands High School
CCRPI · 2024–25
Schools like Islands High School
Every Georgia high 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
75.7
2024–25 · 754 students
Among its look-alikes
13th
of 21 high schools serving similar students · median 79.3
Economically disadvantaged
38%
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Against schools at that rate
−6.6 pts
Georgia's high schools at 38% average 82.3
Where to look next
Schools worth visiting
Look-alike schools that score higher than Islands High School and higher than Georgia's high 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.
Ola High School
Henry County
89.5+13.8 vs. you
+7.5 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,588 students · 211% of your size
ED 39%·SWD 18%·EL 2%·Black 37%·Hisp. 10%·White 45%
Walnut Grove High School
Walton County
86.7+11.0 vs. you
+4.9 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,513 students · 201% of your size
ED 40%·SWD 10%·EL 3%·Black 15%·Hisp. 12%·White 68%
Mary Persons High School
Monroe County
85.3+9.6 vs. you
+4.6 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,325 students · 176% of your size
ED 44%·SWD 11%·EL 1%·Black 24%·Hisp. 4%·White 67%
Harris County High School
Harris County
85.5+9.8 vs. you
+2.4 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
1,733 students · 230% of your size
ED 35%·SWD 13%·EL 1%·Black 17%·Hisp. 7%·White 67%
The comparison group
The 20 schools most like this one
Georgia high schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, a third to three times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 56 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 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
Barrow Arts and Sciences AcademyBarrow County
94.2
967 students
47% econ. disadvantaged
+14.3 vs. expected
2
Ola High SchoolHenry County
89.5
1,588 students
39% econ. disadvantaged
+7.5 vs. expected
3
Walnut Grove High SchoolWalton County
86.7
1,513 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
+4.9 vs. expected
4
Harris County High SchoolHarris County
85.5
1,733 students
35% econ. disadvantaged
+2.4 vs. expected
5
Mary Persons High SchoolMonroe County
85.3
1,325 students
44% econ. disadvantaged
+4.6 vs. expected
6
North Hall High SchoolHall County
84.2
1,166 students
32% econ. disadvantaged
+0.3 vs. expected
7
Cherokee Bluff High SchoolHall County
83.5
1,205 students
32% econ. disadvantaged
−0.4 vs. expected
8
East Forsyth High SchoolForsyth County
82.4
1,589 students
35% econ. disadvantaged
−0.7 vs. expected
9
Pike County High SchoolPike County
80.6
1,077 students
36% econ. disadvantaged
−2.2 vs. expected
10
South Effingham High SchoolEffingham County
79.6
1,906 students
39% econ. disadvantaged
−2.4 vs. expected
11
Dawson County High SchoolDawson County
79.3
883 students
42% econ. disadvantaged
−1.9 vs. expected
12
Villa Rica High SchoolCarroll County
76.2
1,684 students
37% econ. disadvantaged
−6.3 vs. expected
13
Islands High School (this school)Savannah-Chatham County
75.7
754 students
38% econ. disadvantaged
−6.6 vs. expected
14
Evans High SchoolColumbia County
75.2
1,803 students
39% econ. disadvantaged
−6.8 vs. expected
15
Central High SchoolCarroll County
74.5
1,338 students
38% econ. disadvantaged
−7.8 vs. expected
16
Temple High SchoolCarroll County
73.4
869 students
37% econ. disadvantaged
−9.1 vs. expected
17
Morgan County High SchoolMorgan County
72.6
1,117 students
46% econ. disadvantaged
−7.6 vs. expected
18
Jones County High SchoolJones County
71.5
1,614 students
38% econ. disadvantaged
−10.8 vs. expected
19
Harlem High SchoolColumbia County
71.3
1,319 students
42% econ. disadvantaged
−9.9 vs. expected
20
Bowdon High SchoolCarroll County
69.3
430 students
40% econ. disadvantaged
−12.5 vs. expected
21
Mt. Zion High SchoolCarroll County
64.9
496 students
47% econ. disadvantaged
−15.0 vs. expected
This schoolOther schools“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's high 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 high 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.