How your local school scored on Georgia’s state tests

Every year, Georgia students spend hours taking state standardized tests.

The test results are used for all kinds of purposes: To help teachers figure out where students are struggling and where they’re excelling; to determine how the state rates schools and to grade some teachers’ performance.

>>Find results for your child’s school:

The tests are called the Milestones.

Students in grades three through eight take the tests in language arts, math, science and social studies. High school students take tests in individual courses in those same four subject areas.

>>Read about your local district’s performance:

Atlanta
Clayton
Cobb
Decatur
DeKalb
Fulton
Gwinnett
Marietta
Statewide

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