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Alumni: what's one memory from Westside High School that still sticks with you?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
N/A
State avg 40.1%
District avg 23.4%
County avg 23.4%
District avg 23.4%
County avg 23.4%
Test scores
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Georgia Milestones, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient or Distinguished.Mathematics
7.4%
State avg 44.6%
District avg 18.8%
County avg 18.8%
+0.5pp since 2021-22
District avg 18.8%
County avg 18.8%
+0.5pp since 2021-22
Science
8.0%
State avg 40.6%
District avg 15.5%
County avg 15.5%
-6.5pp since 2021-22
District avg 15.5%
County avg 15.5%
-6.5pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 39.3%
District avg 15.6%
County avg 15.6%
District avg 15.6%
County avg 15.6%
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 7 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level and about 8 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 45 and 41. Math scores have held steady since 2021, while science scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
7.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
By grade, SY 2024-25
School score vs state average per tested grade.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | Social Studies | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade HS | N/A | N/A | N/A | 7.4% | 49.1% | 243 | 8.0% | 46.2% | 187 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
4-year history
All grades, all students. Westside Georgia avgMathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 7.4% | 18.8% | 18.8% | 44.6% |
| SY 2023-24 | 9.4% | 16.0% | 16.0% | 42.9% |
| SY 2022-23 | 1.7% | 12.6% | 12.6% | 39.0% |
| SY 2021-22 | 6.9% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 38.2% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 8.0% | 15.5% | 15.5% | 40.6% |
| SY 2023-24 | 6.7% | 13.4% | 13.4% | 38.9% |
| SY 2022-23 | 11.3% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 38.5% |
| SY 2021-22 | 14.5% | 13.2% | 13.2% | 39.3% |
Recent discussions
From the Westside High School community.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.
How should I read a single score?
Each percent represents the share of tested students who performed at grade level or above. Compare the school number against the state, district, and county averages on this page to see whether it is above or below typical.
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.