Which schools are making the greatest progress?

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was curious about which public schools in Georgia made big academic improvements over the last year.

State education department officials last week released its annual report card, officially known as the College and Career Ready Performance Index, of each Georgia public school based on a series of academic criteria. The AJC has reported on the top schools and which schools are beating the odds.

Officials increased the weight scale for the category called “progress,” a complicated measure of where each student performed relative to academically similar peers —- that counts for 40 percent of a school’s score on a typical scale of 0 to 100. Until now, that measure, often referred to as growth, was only a quarter of the report card.