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CHARTER vs DISTRICT · GEORGIA

Georgia charter schools, ranked

Every Georgia charter with a BeatsExpectations score, best to worst, against what its student demographics predict.

Charters ranked
49
with a BeatsExpectations score
Charter sector vs district
-2.2 pp
charters trail on average
Top charter
+41.3 pp
Savannah Classical Academy Charter School
GA CHARTER SCHOOLS RANKED BY BEATSEXPECTATIONS
SchoolCity% FRL% ProficientBeats (pp) ↓
Savannah Classical Academy Charter SchoolSavannah93.1%70.5%41.3
Savannah Classical Academy Charter High SchoolSavannah75.0%75.9%37.3
Berrien Academy Performance Learning CenterNashville90.2%56.8%26
DeKalb Agriculture Technology and Environment SchoolStone Mountain99.9%51.0%25.2
KIPP South Fulton Academy SchoolAtlanta100%48.2%22.5
LAKE OCONEE CHARTERGreensboro80.5%57.0%21.3
International Community SchoolDecatur95.2%41.4%13.2
Amana Academy SchoolAlpharetta47.5%64.4%11.6
Charles R. Drew Charter SchoolAtlanta38.0%69.2%11.5
Walton High SchoolMarietta7.6%79.0%5.6
KIPP Strive Primary Charter SchoolAtlanta100%30.2%4.6
Wesley International Academy CharterAtlanta96.4%31.8%4.3
Hapeville Charter Career AcademyAtlanta99.8%26.4%0.6
Centennial Place Academy (Charter)Atlanta100%25.9%0.2
New Life Academy of ExcellenceDuluth66.2%43.3%0.2
DeKalb PATH Academy Charter SchoolBrookhaven100%25.8%0.1
Lake Oconee Charter High SchoolGreensboro23.0%65.3%-0.2
GLOBE Academy Charter School IAtlanta29.6%61.5%-0.5
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter - ElementaryAtlanta14.5%69.2%-0.7
Kipp Strive Charter SchoolAtlanta96.2%26.2%-1.5
KIPP Vision Primary Charter SchoolAtlanta100%21.8%-3.9
KIPP Soul AcademyAtlanta100%21.8%-3.9
Atlanta Classical AcademyAtlanta17.1%64.4%-4.1
Museum School Avondale EstatesAvondale Estates36.2%54.3%-4.3
Tybee Island Maritime Academy SchoolTybee Island33.1%55.8%-4.4
Chattahoochee Hills Charter SchoolFairburn83.0%29.5%-4.9
The Kindezi SchoolAtlanta100%20.5%-5.2
Charles Drew Charter JA/SR AcademyAtlanta42.2%50.3%-5.2
KIPP Soul PrimaryAtlanta100%20.2%-5.5
KIPP VISION Charter SchoolAtlanta100%19.6%-6.1
Kipp Atlanta Collegiate Charter SchoolAtlanta100%19.0%-6.7
Leadership Preparatory AcademyLithonia67.9%35.4%-6.9
DeKalb Preparatory Academy CharterDecatur100%18.7%-7
Westside Atlanta Charter SchoolAtlanta54.7%40.6%-8.5
Kindezi Old 4th WardAtlanta96.9%18.6%-8.7
Fulton Academy of Science and TechnologyRoswell5.4%63.6%-10.9
KIPP WAYS Academy Charter SchoolAtlanta100%14.7%-11
Kipp WAYS Primary Charter SchoolAtlanta100%14.5%-11.1
Atlanta Neighborhood Charter - MiddleAtlanta15.0%57.9%-11.6
Utopian Academy for the Arts Elementary SchoolEllenwood90.9%17.9%-12.5
Utopian Academy for the Arts High SchoolMarrow77.7%23.6%-13.7
Oglethorpe Charter SchoolSavannah87.8%18.1%-13.8
Susie King Taylor Community SchoolSavannah85.9%18.6%-14.4
Brighten AcademyDouglasville34.9%42.8%-16.5
Main Street Charter AcademyCollege Park46.1%35.4%-18.1
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter SchoolSavannah73.1%19.3%-20.3
Tapestry Public Charter SchoolDoraville34.7%30.9%-28.6
7 Pillars Career AcademyForest Park72.3%10.3%-29.7
Skyview High SchoolCollege Park88.4%0.5%-31.1
49 of 49 rows · Every scored charter in GA (top 60 by residual), best to worst. "Beats" is the percentage-point gap between a school's actual proficiency and what the per-state regression predicts from its FRL share. Sort ascending to see the state's weakest charters. Worst charter shown: Skyview High School (-31.1 pp).↓ Download charter-vs-district-by-state-ga.csv

What "Beats" means here

Ranking charter schools by raw proficiency mostly ranks them by the families they enroll. To compare a charter to the district schools it actually competes with, we use BeatsExpectations: a per-state regression of school proficiency on free-and-reduced-lunch share. It predicts the proficiency a school "should" post given its poverty profile, and the residual, in percentage points, is how far above or below that line the school actually lands. A charter at +15 is beating its demographics; one at -15 is trailing them. The table above ranks every scored Georgia charter on that residual. Sort ascending to see the weakest performers.

How Georgia charters compare to district schools

The headline stat is the charter sector's average residual minus the district sector's. A positive number means Georgia charters, on average, beat their demographics by more than the state's district schools do; a negative number means they trail. The national picture is genuinely mixed: charters beat district schools handily in some states (New York is the clearest case) and trail them badly in others (Ohio and Pennsylvania, where troubled cyber-charter sectors drag the average down). See the national report for every state side by side.

Limits

BeatsExpectations controls for poverty, but not for everything that separates charters from district schools: charters can have application and lottery processes, different special-education and English-learner shares, and different mid-year attrition. A high residual is strong evidence a school is doing something right, but it is not proof the same students would have done worse down the street. Treat this as the fairest single comparison available from public data, not a settled verdict on school choice.

Source data

NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 (charter flag, FRL share, enrollment) and Georgia's native state assessment for the most recent available year. The BeatsExpectations regression is recomputed after every data refresh.

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allk12 (2026). "Georgia charter schools, ranked by BeatsExpectations." Retrieved from https://allk12.com/reports/charter-vs-district/georgia
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DOWNLOAD THE DATA
↓ charter-vs-district-by-state-ga.csv
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