Regional data brief · Regional Educational Service Agency

Coastal Plains RESA — Georgia’s published data

All 12 member districts. Every district figure on this page is a value published by the State of Georgia, reproduced as-is. The one exception is explained in the notes at the bottom of this page.

Coastal Plains RESA’s own numbers — Standard Education’s enrollment-weighted average across its 12 districts, against Georgia’s published statewide figure

20.7%

Chronic absenteeism

GA: 20.4% ▲ +0.3 pts

92.33%

Four-year graduation rate

GA: 87.22% ▲ +5.11 pts

91.5%

Economically disadvantaged

GA: 68.0% ▲ +23.5 pts

13.8%

Students with disabilities

GA: 13.5% ▲ +0.3 pts

What Coastal Plains RESA’s numbers show

Georgia’s published chronic absenteeism rate is 20.4%. 6 of the 12 districts are above it. Highest: Valdosta City 28.6%, Tift County 26.3%, Berrien County 25.5%.
Georgia’s published graduation rate is 87.22%. 1 of the 12 districts falls below it. Lowest: Ben Hill County 85.65%.
In EOC — American Literature and Composition, the published Beginning Learner share runs as high as 54.1% in Brooks County, followed by Turner County at 51.5%, Ben Hill County at 40.2%. Beginning Learner is Georgia’s own lowest achievement level — students not yet demonstrating proficiency in the grade-level standards.
Georgia publishes chronic absenteeism separately for students with and without disabilities — 25.1% and 19.6% statewide. In 11 of the 12 districts the published rate for students with disabilities is the higher of the two.
Out-of-school suspension, as published: highest in Turner County at 14.9%, Valdosta City at 11.0%, Tift County at 10.1%. Georgia publishes no statewide suspension figure in this file, so there is no state rate to compare these against.
12 of the 12 districts have no published PBIS implementation rating for any school (Ben Hill County, Berrien County, Brooks County, Colquitt County, Cook County, Echols County, Irwin County, Lanier County, Lowndes County, Tift County, Turner County, Valdosta City). The rating reflects a submitted state fidelity review, so this is a gap in published visibility rather than proof of anything about the program itself.

Chronic absenteeism, as published

Member districts shaded by their own published value. Districts are grouped into five bands by rank; no value has been averaged or blended.

HighestLowest Not published

District boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2025 unified school districts.

Four-year graduation rate against Georgia's published rate

Published rate per district. The line is Georgia's own published statewide rate.

Georgia 87.22%

Cook County98.48%Turner County96.84%Lanier County96.81%Berrien County96.64%Brooks County95.81%Echols County94.12%Irwin County94.07%Lowndes County93.85%Valdosta City92.90%Colquitt County89.33%Tift County88.59%Ben Hill County85.65%

84.62%99.51%

Achievement levels as the state reports them

The four published achievement-level percentages for each district, stacked. Georgia publishes no statewide row for assessment, so there is no state comparison — these are absolute published shares.

Beginning Learner Developing Learner Proficient Learner Distinguished Learner

Turner County46.7%Brooks County45.0%Valdosta City43.7%Irwin County34.4%Colquitt County33.5%Tift County32.8%Echols County31.9%Ben Hill County31.1%Cook County30.7%Berrien County27.3%Lanier County23.8%Lowndes County17.6%

The vertical rule marks the proficiency standard — segments to its right are students at Proficient or Distinguished. Ordered by the published Beginning Learner share. EOG grades 3–8 — English Language Arts.

Chronic absenteeism, as published by student group

Each district's published rate for students with and without disabilities. Dashed lines are Georgia's published statewide rates for the same two groups.

Students with disabilitiesGeorgia 25.1% Students without disabilitiesGeorgia 19.6% Georgia published rate

Valdosta City32.6%Tift County30.9%Ben Hill County30.6%Berrien County28.4%Brooks County23.6%Colquitt County23.1%Echols County22.7%Cook County21.5%Lanier County20.5%Irwin County20.1%Turner County17.4%Lowndes County17.2%

8.2%34.4%

Suspension, as published

Share of students given in-school and out-of-school suspension at least once. Georgia publishes no statewide row in this file, so there is no state line to draw.

ISS % OSS %

Ben Hill County21.4%8.6%Turner County12.6%14.9%Valdosta City15.4%11.0%Cook County15.8%8.5%Berrien County15.8%7.4%Echols County11.8%5.5%Tift County7.1%10.1%Irwin County10.3%5.4%Colquitt County7.1%8.4%Brooks County5.9%6.7%Lanier County6.3%5.7%Lowndes County5.4%5.7%

No statewide row is published in this file, so there is no state line.

Published PBIS implementation ratings

Georgia publishes this rating for individual schools. Select a district to see its schools. A school with no rating is not necessarily a school without the program — the rating reflects a submitted state fidelity review.

awaiting dataNo published school ratingsNo member district has school-level ratings loaded yet.

Full data table

Every value on this page, as published. The Georgia row is the state’s own published row, not an average of the districts above it.

Sources & vintage

Every value on this page is drawn from public state and federal collections. Suppressed small cells are flagged, never imputed. Every figure here is a published value, reproduced as-is.

Georgia GOSA / GOEWS downloadable data · 2024-25

District boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2025 unified school districts. Member district list: Coastal Plains RESA, read from the agency’s own published member list.

What is and isn’t here. Georgia publishes statewide figures for chronic absenteeism (including separately by student group), graduation rate and enrollment characteristics, so those are shown against the state. Georgia does not publish a statewide row for assessment results or discipline, so those are shown on their own absolute scale with no state comparison — rather than against an average we would have had to compute ourselves. Coastal Plains RESA does not publish a regional figure of its own for anything. The four tiles near the top of this page are the one exception: an enrollment-weighted average across Coastal Plains RESA’s own 12 member districts, calculated by Standard Education and labeled as such, shown next to Georgia’s real published statewide figure for comparison. Every other figure on this page remains exactly as published — never averaged, blended or ranked by us.