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Vidalia City
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Vidalia City compares

A statewide ranking mostly ranks size and affluence. These are the fairer questions: how does this system do against districts of similar size, districts serving similar students, and districts at a similar poverty rate?

Georgia: 43.9%

English Language Arts results for 2025–26 have not been published yet. “All subjects” scores and rankings cover the published subjects only.

Proficient or Distinguished
24.3%
−19.6 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
58th of 63
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
15th of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
−9.8 pts
Typical at 93% ED: 34.1%
Most aligned district
Meriwether County
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
27.7%
Vidalia City
24.3%−3.4 pts
Tested
1,384 (you: 1,393)
Econ. disadvantaged
98% (you: 93%)
23% SWD · 2% EL · 55% Black · 5% Hisp. · 34% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 63 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Vidalia City on all subjects (1,393 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Academy For Classical Education
72.0%
1,291 tested
55
Jefferson County
25.8%
1,174 tested
56
Mcduffie County
24.9%
1,839 tested
57
Dublin City
24.4%
1,339 tested
58
Vidalia City (this district)
24.3%
1,393 tested
59
Crisp County
21.6%
1,962 tested
60
20.9%
1,030 tested
61
Dubois Integrity Academy
19.1%
1,104 tested

Vidalia CityOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

The 20 Georgia districts whose tested populations look most like Vidalia City's — matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Houston County17% SWD · 4% EL · 41% Black · 12% Hisp. · 36% White
50.3%
20,502 tested
12
Brooks County11% SWD · 8% EL · 49% Black · 16% Hisp. · 29% White
27.5%
1,373 tested
13
Mcduffie County19% SWD · 3% EL · 58% Black · 6% Hisp. · 30% White
24.9%
1,839 tested
14
Griffin-Spalding County15% SWD · 6% EL · 54% Black · 15% Hisp. · 25% White
24.6%
5,549 tested
15
Vidalia City (this district)18% SWD · 4% EL · 52% Black · 10% Hisp. · 32% White
24.3%
1,393 tested
16
Wilkinson County14% SWD · 4% EL · 56% Black · 8% Hisp. · 27% White
24.2%
551 tested
17
Statesboro Steam Academy18% SWD · 51% Black · 9% Hisp. · 35% White
23.5%
182 tested
18
Georgia Cyber Academy (Virtual)19% SWD · 2% EL · 47% Black · 13% Hisp. · 29% White
22.9%
7,760 tested

Vidalia CityOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 3

Against the poverty trend

Proficiency tracks how many students a district serves in poverty, so a plain ranking partly ranks affluence. This places every Georgia district against the statewide trend — above the line is out-performing districts serving similar student populations.

GOSA has not published enrollment figures for 2025–26 yet, so each district is placed by its 2024–25 poverty rate — the most recent published. Scores are 2025–26’s own.

93% of Vidalia City’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 34.1%; Vidalia City scores 24.3% — −9.8 pts below that trend.

Vidalia CityGeorgia districtStatewide trend192 districts · poverty explains 44% of the variation · 2024–25 poverty rates

The 15 districts closest in poverty rate

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
vs. trend
1
Haralson County94% economically disadvantaged
57.5%
+23.8 pts vs. poverty trend
2
Berrien County94% economically disadvantaged
48.6%
+14.9 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Wayne County92% economically disadvantaged
41.7%
+7.2 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Gordon County93% economically disadvantaged
41.2%
+7.1 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Emanuel County93% economically disadvantaged
41.0%
+6.9 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Troup County94% economically disadvantaged
37.0%
+3.3 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Grady County93% economically disadvantaged
36.3%
+2.2 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Fannin County92% economically disadvantaged
36.0%
+1.5 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Walker County94% economically disadvantaged
32.9%
−0.8 pts vs. poverty trend
10
Clarke County93% economically disadvantaged
31.9%
−2.2 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Vidalia City (this district)93% economically disadvantaged
24.3%
−9.8 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Macon County93% economically disadvantaged
21.1%
−13.0 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Richmond County93% economically disadvantaged
19.5%
−14.6 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Quitman County93% economically disadvantaged
18.3%
— vs. poverty trend
15
Dooly County94% economically disadvantaged
17.8%
−15.9 pts vs. poverty trend

Vidalia CityOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)“vs. trend” is coloured only more than one residual standard deviation from the statewide line.Bars run 0–100%.

Source: Georgia Milestones district aggregates published by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, All Students, all grades. “All subjects” weights each subject by students tested. Similar-size bands use the number of students tested rather than enrollment — it is published for every district and is the population the scores actually describe. Demographic peers are the twenty districts whose tested populations look most like this system's own, matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students in EOG Mathematics. The poverty comparison uses the share of enrolled students identified as economically disadvantaged in GOSA's Enrollment by Subgroup Metrics file, fitted against proficiency by least squares across all districts testing at least 200 students. Georgia identifies economically disadvantaged students by direct certification, and districts operating the Community Eligibility Provision report every student as eligible — so the measure compresses at the top and describes the trend, not any individual cause. See every First District system on the statewide ranking.