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Southwest Georgia RESA — Georgia’s published data

All 15 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.

Southwest Georgia RESA’s own numbers — Standard Education’s enrollment-weighted average across its 15 districts, against Georgia’s published statewide figure

21.7%

Chronic absenteeism

GA: 20.4% ▲ +1.3 pts

90.82%

Four-year graduation rate

GA: 87.22% ▲ +3.60 pts

91.0%

Economically disadvantaged

GA: 68.0% ▲ +23.0 pts

13.6%

Students with disabilities

GA: 13.5% ▲ +0.1 pts

What Southwest Georgia RESA’s numbers show

Georgia’s published chronic absenteeism rate is 20.4%. 7 of the 15 districts are above it. Highest: Decatur County 37.4%, Dougherty County 25.9%, Baker County 24.7%.
Georgia’s published graduation rate is 87.22%. 1 of the 15 districts falls below it. Lowest: Mitchell County 85.86%.
In EOG grades 3–8 — English Language Arts, the published Beginning Learner share runs as high as 54.7% in Baker County, followed by Calhoun County at 52.8%, Dougherty County at 41.4%. 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 14 of the 15 districts the published rate for students with disabilities is the higher of the two.
Out-of-school suspension, as published: highest in Mitchell County at 13.1%, Decatur County at 12.0%, Terrell County at 11.9%. Georgia publishes no statewide suspension figure in this file, so there is no state rate to compare these against.
15 of the 15 districts have no published PBIS implementation rating for any school (Baker County, Calhoun County, Decatur County, Dougherty County, Early County, Grady County, Lee County, Miller County, Mitchell County, Pelham City, Seminole County, Terrell County, Thomas County, Thomasville City, Worth 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.

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

Baker County54.7%Calhoun County52.8%Dougherty County41.4%Early County41.3%Seminole County40.2%Pelham City39.8%Mitchell County38.7%Terrell County36.6%Grady County36.2%Miller County35.5%Decatur County33.9%Thomasville City33.1%Worth County33.0%Thomas County30.5%Lee County22.9%

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

Decatur County41.6%Miller County32.5%Dougherty County28.6%Baker County27.7%Worth County25.8%Grady County23.8%Thomas County23.5%Mitchell County22.6%Early County21.8%Thomasville City21.6%Calhoun County20.0%Lee County20.0%Terrell County15.5%Seminole County12.8%Pelham City11.1%

7.1%44.2%

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 %

Early County25.0%8.6%Decatur County20.6%12.0%Mitchell County16.4%13.1%Calhoun County18.7%8.9%Miller County15.8%8.9%Thomasville City11.8%10.8%Pelham City14.6%7.8%Worth County11.5%9.7%Dougherty County6.7%11.3%Terrell County4.9%11.9%Lee County10.2%5.3%Thomas County10.4%4.7%Seminole County12.0%3.1%Grady County8.3%6.5%Baker County5.4%2.7%

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: Southwest Georgia 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. Southwest Georgia 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 Southwest Georgia RESA’s own 15 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.