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Cook County Middle School · Sparks, GA
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Georgia Milestones, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient or Distinguished.
English Language Arts
32.5%
State avg 40.1%
District avg 29.9%
County avg 29.9%
+4.9pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
46.5%
State avg 44.6%
District avg 42.5%
County avg 42.5%
+13.2pp since 2021-22
Science
35.9%
State avg 40.6%
District avg 34.8%
County avg 34.8%
+10.7pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
33.9%
State avg 39.3%
District avg 33.9%
County avg 33.9%
+5.4pp since 2021-22

What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 46 of 100 do math at grade level, about 36 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 34 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40, 45, 41, and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 13 points, science scores are up about 11 points, and social studies scores are up about 5 points.

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 635.4%41.4%20635.6%37.7%205N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 728.9%40.9%20142.3%40.6%201N/A0.0%N/AN/A0.0%N/A
Grade 832.9%40.1%23453.4%47.7%23435.9%29.0%23433.9%39.3%233
Grade HSN/AN/AN/A100.0%49.1%27N/A46.2%N/AN/AN/AN/A

4-year history

All grades, all students. Cook County   Georgia avg

English Language Arts

39282021-2240292022-2342332023-2440322024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2532.5%29.9%29.9%40.1%
SY 2023-2433.0%32.7%32.7%41.8%
SY 2022-2329.1%28.9%28.9%39.6%
SY 2021-2227.6%27.2%27.2%38.5%

Mathematics

38332021-2239412022-2343462023-2445462024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2546.5%42.5%42.5%44.6%
SY 2023-2445.8%42.3%42.3%42.9%
SY 2022-2341.2%38.1%38.1%39.0%
SY 2021-2233.3%31.9%31.9%38.2%

Science

39252021-2238252022-2339362023-2441362024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2535.9%34.8%34.8%40.6%
SY 2023-2435.9%41.1%41.1%38.9%
SY 2022-2324.5%32.3%32.3%38.5%
SY 2021-2225.2%34.1%34.1%39.3%

Social Studies

38292021-2236292022-2338382023-2439342024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2533.9%33.9%33.9%39.3%
SY 2023-2437.8%37.8%37.8%37.6%
SY 2022-2329.3%29.3%29.3%36.2%
SY 2021-2228.5%28.5%28.5%37.6%

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How to read these scores

What is Georgia Milestones?
Georgia public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take the Georgia Milestones End-of-Grade (EOG) tests in English Language Arts, Math, Science (grades 5/8), and Social Studies (grade 8). High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) Milestones in American Literature, Algebra, Biology, and US History.
What does "% Proficient or Distinguished" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "Proficient Learner" or "Distinguished Learner" on Georgia Milestones (top 2 of 4 performance levels: Beginning, Developing, Proficient, Distinguished). Proficient and above means the student is performing at or beyond grade level. A higher number is better.
What does 32.5% mean for English Language Arts at Cook County Middle School?
It means about 32.5 percent of students tested at Cook County Middle School performed at grade level or above on the Georgia Milestones English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Georgia that year was 40.1%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Georgia, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Georgia Department of Education + Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA), Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) End-of-Grade (grades 3-8) and End-of-Course (high school) assessments. School-level results from the GOSA Downloadable Data Repository. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient or Distinguished Learner" rate (top 2 of 4 Milestones performance levels).
How often is it updated?
Georgia Milestones is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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