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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
Among similar size
58th of 63
Districts testing a similar number of students
Among demographic peers
15th of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. similar 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 tested), ranked by score.

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Academy For Classical Education72.0%
2Bremen City69.5%
3Trion City65.8%
4Scintilla Charter Academy59.7%
5Heard County59.3%
6Schley County59.3%
7Chickamauga City58.6%
8Bleckley County56.4%
9Commerce City54.5%
10Charlton County54.3%
11Northwest Classical Academy52.8%
12Lincoln County50.6%
13Brantley County49.5%
14Rabun County48.8%
15Berrien County48.6%
16Jeff Davis County48.5%
17Lanier County48.3%
18Bacon County47.9%
19Atkinson County46.6%
20Wilcox County46.2%
21Union County46.1%
22Dade County45.0%
23Oglethorpe County43.9%
24Banks County43.5%
25Screven County40.6%
26Greene County40.0%
27Toombs County39.9%
28Irwin County39.7%
29Telfair County39.6%
30Cook County37.7%
31Social Circle City37.6%
32Worth County37.4%
33Taylor County37.3%
34Candler County36.9%
35Jasper County36.8%
36Putnam County36.5%
37Fannin County36.0%
38Elbert County35.2%
39Seminole County34.1%
40Mitchell County34.0%
41Lamar County32.8%
42Ben Hill County32.6%
43Thomasville City32.2%
44McIntosh County31.7%
45Wilkes County31.6%
46Dodge County30.4%
47Washington County30.1%
48Clinch County29.2%
49Marion County29.2%
50Pulaski County27.9%
51Meriwether County27.7%
52Brooks County27.5%
53Chattooga County26.6%
54Crawford County26.1%
55Jefferson County25.8%
56Mcduffie County24.9%
57Dublin City24.4%
58Vidalia City24.3%
59Crisp County21.6%
60Evans County20.9%
61Dubois Integrity Academy19.1%
62Jenkins County17.5%
63Early County17.4%

Georgia averageBars 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.

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Houston County17% SWD · 4% EL · 41% Black · 12% Hisp. · 36% White50.3%
2Troup County13% SWD · 7% EL · 43% Black · 13% Hisp. · 37% White37.0%
3Peach County14% SWD · 5% EL · 51% Black · 16% Hisp. · 27% White33.7%
4Ben Hill County15% SWD · 4% EL · 43% Black · 13% Hisp. · 41% White32.6%
5Pelham City13% SWD · 3% EL · 58% Black · 7% Hisp. · 31% White32.4%
6Thomasville City23% SWD · 1% EL · 62% Black · 3% Hisp. · 31% White32.2%
7Wilkes County14% SWD · 4% EL · 48% Black · 11% Hisp. · 35% White31.6%
8Decatur County11% SWD · 4% EL · 55% Black · 13% Hisp. · 28% White29.7%
9Rocky Creek Charter Academy14% SWD · 53% Black · 11% Hisp. · 29% White29.2%
10Georgia Connections Academy (Virtua17% SWD · 2% EL · 39% Black · 12% Hisp. · 35% White28.5%
11Meriwether County23% SWD · 2% EL · 55% Black · 5% Hisp. · 34% White27.7%
12Brooks County11% SWD · 8% EL · 49% Black · 16% Hisp. · 29% White27.5%
13Mcduffie County19% SWD · 3% EL · 58% Black · 6% Hisp. · 30% White24.9%
14Griffin-Spalding County15% SWD · 6% EL · 54% Black · 15% Hisp. · 25% White24.6%
15Vidalia City18% SWD · 4% EL · 52% Black · 10% Hisp. · 32% White24.3%
16Wilkinson County14% SWD · 4% EL · 56% Black · 8% Hisp. · 27% White24.2%
17Statesboro Steam Academy18% SWD · 51% Black · 9% Hisp. · 35% White23.5%
18Georgia Cyber Academy (Virtual)19% SWD · 2% EL · 47% Black · 13% Hisp. · 29% White22.9%
19Crisp County17% SWD · 4% EL · 59% Black · 8% Hisp. · 27% White21.6%
20Jenkins County14% SWD · 2% EL · 49% Black · 10% Hisp. · 35% White17.5%
21Taliaferro County17% SWD · 13% EL · 55% Black · 14% Hisp. · 26% White3.2%

Georgia averageBars 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

#DistrictProficient or DistinguishedScore
1Haralson County94% economically disadvantaged57.5%
2Berrien County94% economically disadvantaged48.6%
3Wayne County92% economically disadvantaged41.7%
4Gordon County93% economically disadvantaged41.2%
5Emanuel County93% economically disadvantaged41.0%
6Troup County94% economically disadvantaged37.0%
7Grady County93% economically disadvantaged36.3%
8Fannin County92% economically disadvantaged36.0%
9Walker County94% economically disadvantaged32.9%
10Clarke County93% economically disadvantaged31.9%
11Vidalia City93% economically disadvantaged24.3%
12Macon County93% economically disadvantaged21.1%
13Richmond County93% economically disadvantaged19.5%
14Quitman County93% economically disadvantaged18.3%
15Dooly County94% economically disadvantaged17.8%

Georgia averageBars 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.