Summary:
The city of Thomson, Georgia, is home to 5 schools serving students from elementary through high school, including 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school. The data reveals significant disparities in academic performance across these schools, with some standout performers and others consistently underperforming.
Thomson-McDuffie Middle School stands out as a relative bright spot, with higher-than-average proficiency rates in 8th grade Math and English Language Arts compared to the McDuffie County and state averages. The school also performed well on Algebra I End of Course exams, with 59.6% proficiency in 2024-2025. In contrast, Thomson High School had particularly low proficiency rates, ranging from 12% to 28.8% across subject areas.
The elementary schools, including Maxwell Elementary, Thomson Elementary, and Norris Elementary, all had 100% of their students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating high-poverty student populations. These schools also had the highest per-student spending, ranging from $8,601 to $10,481 in 2018-2019, and the lowest student-teacher ratios, from 11.9 to 15.7 students per teacher.
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