Regional data brief · Regional Educational Service Agency

First District RESA — Georgia’s published data

All 19 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.

First District RESA’s own numbers — Standard Education’s enrollment-weighted average across its 19 districts, against Georgia’s published statewide figure

21.1%

Chronic absenteeism

GA: 20.4% ▲ +0.7 pts

92.08%

Four-year graduation rate

GA: 87.22% ▲ +4.86 pts

74.7%

Economically disadvantaged

GA: 68.0% ▲ +6.7 pts

15.1%

Students with disabilities

GA: 13.5% ▲ +1.6 pts

What First District RESA’s numbers show

Georgia’s published chronic absenteeism rate is 20.4%. 11 of the 19 districts are above it. Highest: Liberty County 31.0%, Evans County 30.0%, Toombs County 26.1%.
Georgia’s published graduation rate is 87.22%. 1 of the 19 districts falls below it. Lowest: Savannah-Chatham County 87.17%.
In EOC — Algebra: Concepts and Connections, the published Beginning Learner share runs as high as 67.3% in Evans County, followed by Liberty County at 47.7%, Savannah-Chatham County at 38.0%. 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 19 of the 19 districts the published rate for students with disabilities is the higher of the two.
Out-of-school suspension, as published: highest in Evans County at 13.4%, Glynn County at 10.9%, Screven County at 10.8%. Georgia publishes no statewide suspension figure in this file, so there is no state rate to compare these against.
5 of the 19 districts have no published PBIS implementation rating for any school (Appling County, Candler County, Emanuel County, Jeff Davis County, Wayne County). 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 2023 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%

Appling County99.16%Glynn County99.04%Jeff Davis County98.90%McIntosh County98.06%Vidalia City96.84%Candler County96.30%Camden County96.18%Evans County95.90%Long County95.52%Bryan County94.46%Toombs County93.97%Effingham County93.69%Liberty County91.88%Wayne County89.57%Tattnall County88.70%Bulloch County88.54%Screven County88.51%Emanuel County88.33%Savannah-Chatham County87.17%

86.21%100.00%

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

Evans County60.7%Vidalia City45.6%Savannah-Chatham County42.3%Candler County39.9%Tattnall County37.6%Liberty County36.5%Screven County34.6%Long County34.4%Toombs County32.9%Emanuel County32.7%Wayne County32.5%Bulloch County32.3%Glynn County28.5%McIntosh County27.6%Jeff Davis County27.0%Appling County26.1%Effingham County15.9%Camden County15.3%Bryan County15.1%

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

Liberty County35.0%Evans County32.9%Toombs County28.4%Appling County27.0%Wayne County27.0%Bulloch County26.6%Jeff Davis County26.2%Camden County25.7%Savannah-Chatham County25.5%Long County25.2%Emanuel County24.9%Screven County24.7%Glynn County24.1%Tattnall County21.8%Vidalia City20.6%McIntosh County20.1%Effingham County18.8%Bryan County18.1%Candler County17.6%

11.2%36.8%

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 %

Evans County24.2%13.4%Screven County20.7%10.8%Wayne County17.4%7.0%Glynn County13.2%10.9%McIntosh County13.8%7.4%Vidalia City13.0%7.8%Liberty County10.1%10.4%Emanuel County11.5%8.6%Long County11.9%8.0%Effingham County10.9%7.9%Tattnall County11.8%5.0%Camden County10.4%5.8%Bulloch County8.4%6.0%Jeff Davis County8.2%4.9%Bryan County6.8%5.5%Candler County5.2%5.6%Savannah-Chatham County3.1%7.5%Appling County6.7%3.6%Toombs County6.0%4.1%

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.

Bryan County Elementary SchoolOperational
Bryan County High SchoolOperational
Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary SchoolOperational
Frances Meeks Elementary SchoolOperational
McAllister Elementary SchoolOperational
Richmond Hill Primary SchoolOperational
Bryan County Middle SchoolEmerging
Richmond Hill Elementary SchoolEmerging
Richmond Hill High SchoolEmerging
Richmond Hill Middle SchoolEmerging

Georgia's published PBIS implementation rating from a submitted state fidelity review. No rating does not mean no PBIS.

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 2023 unified school districts. Member district list: First District 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. First District 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 First District RESA’s own 19 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.