Center Elementary School
Ware County
+16.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
470 students · 98% of your size
ED 96%·SWD 19%·EL 4%·Black 57%·Hisp. 10%·White 23%
Every Georgia elementary 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 · 482 students
of 21 elementary schools serving similar students · median 63.5
Share of enrollment, GOSA direct certification
Georgia's elementary schools at 93% average 69.1
Look-alike schools that score higher than Shuman Elementary School and higher than Georgia's elementary 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.
Ware County
+16.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
470 students · 98% of your size
ED 96%·SWD 19%·EL 4%·Black 57%·Hisp. 10%·White 23%
Douglas County
+10.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
433 students · 90% of your size
ED 91%·SWD 10%·EL 18%·Black 59%·Hisp. 27%·White 6%
Clayton County
+3.7 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
493 students · 102% of your size
ED 100%·SWD 10%·EL 10%·Black 85%·Hisp. 8%·White 2%
Douglas County
+3.1 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
473 students · 98% of your size
ED 88%·SWD 12%·EL 18%·Black 53%·Hisp. 33%·White 9%
Dougherty County
+2.8 pts above what its poverty rate predicts
470 students · 98% of your size
ED 96%·SWD 8%·EL 23%·Black 71%·Hisp. 23%·White 4%
Georgia elementary schools within 10 points of this one's poverty rate, half to one-and-a-half times its size, ranked by CCRPI. 549 schools cleared that bar; these are the 20 nearest by the students they serve.
| # | School | Students | ED | CCRPI | Score | vs. expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Center Elementary School Ware County | 470 | 96% | 84.4 | +16.1 | |
| 2 | Eastside Elementary School Douglas County | 433 | 91% | 79.8 | +10.1 | |
| 3 | Sweetwater Elementary School Douglas County | 473 | 88% | 73.6 | +3.1 | |
| 4 | International Studies Elementary Charter School Dougherty County | 470 | 96% | 71.1 | +2.8 | |
| 5 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School Clayton County | 493 | 100% | 70.9 | +3.7 | |
| 6 | Midway Hills Primary Baldwin County | 482 | 95% | 69.5 | +0.9 | |
| 7 | Shadow Rock Elementary School DeKalb County | 473 | 100% | 68.8 | +1.6 | |
| 8 | Avondale Elementary School DeKalb County | 477 | 92% | 68.3 | −1.1 | |
| 9 | Hendricks Elementary School Cobb County | 519 | 98% | 68.0 | +0.2 | |
| 10 | Hightower Trail Elementary School Rockdale County | 479 | 94% | 63.8 | −5.1 | |
| 11 | Mount Zion Elementary School Clayton County | 491 | 100% | 63.5 | −3.7 | |
| 12 | Pointe South Elementary School Clayton County | 467 | 100% | 62.3 | −4.9 | |
| 13 | Barksdale Elementary School Rockdale County | 467 | 87% | 62.0 | −8.8 | |
| 14 | Shuman Elementary SchoolThis school Savannah-Chatham County | 482 | 93% | 61.3 | −7.8 | |
| 15 | Stephenson Elementary School DeKalb County | 493 | 100% | 61.1 | −6.1 | |
| 16 | Swint Elementary School Clayton County | 521 | 100% | 60.5 | −6.7 | |
| 17 | Savannah-Chatham County | 464 | 89% | 59.4 | −10.9 | |
| 18 | North Douglas Elementary School Douglas County | 537 | 88% | 59.3 | −11.2 | |
| 19 | Savannah-Chatham County | 521 | 89% | 58.8 | −11.5 | |
| 20 | Gaines Elementary School Clarke County | 498 | 100% | 55.9 | −11.3 | |
| 21 | Lee Street Elementary School Clayton County | 475 | 100% | 53.4 | −13.8 |
“vs. expected” is the school's score minus what Georgia's elementary 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.