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Cobb County’s top three 8th-grade classes on Milestones math test

By Christopher Quinn
July 27, 2016

The Cobb County middle schools that had the highest Milestones test performance on eighth grade math scores were:

Dodgen Middle School, with 82.7 percent of students scoring proficient or distinguished.

Dickerson Middle School, with 80.4 percent scoring proficient or distinguished.

Hightower Trail Middle School, with 78.1 percent scoring proficient or distinguished.

The state Department of Education released the results of last spring's Milestones tests yesterday. You can see how Cobb 8th graders compare on math scores here. To change the review from school district to school district, hold your cursor over "System" and select Cobb from the drop-down menu.

» SEE SCORES: You can find your school’s results here for math, and here for English

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Christopher Quinn is a writer and editor who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999. He writes stories on Veterans Affairs, business including high-tech growth in metro Atlanta, Georgia's $72 billion farm economy, and he oversees assigning and editing news obituaries.

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