Summary:
The four middle schools in Griffin-Spalding County—Rehoboth Road Middle School, Cowan Road Middle School, Carver Road Middle School, and Kennedy Road Middle School—serve grades 6-8 with enrollments between 428 and 543 students, and all four schools have 100% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, reflecting a district that ranks in the bottom 15% statewide.
The district splits into two clear tiers. Rehoboth Road is the clear leader, ranking 356th out of 578 Georgia middle schools (38th percentile) with a 2-star rating. It is the only school to have improved its ranking over the past three years, and it posts the district's best math scores—25.9% proficiency in 6th grade, 42.7% in 7th, and 37.1% in 8th. Carver Road is the consistent improver, climbing to 395th (32nd percentile) and boasting the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 18.2%, just above the state rate of 17.7%. Carver Road also shines in 8th-grade math with 53.5% proficiency—more than four times Kennedy Road's 13.1%. By contrast, Cowan Road (526th, 9th percentile) and Kennedy Road (529th, 8th percentile) sit in the bottom 10% with 0-star ratings and chronic absenteeism rates above 31%.
The most striking finding is the Algebra I anomaly: Rehoboth Road posts a 95.2% proficiency rate on the Algebra I End-of-Course exam—nearly double the state average of 48.1%—while Carver Road hits 76.9%. This suggests strong acceleration programs, even as standard 8th-grade science scores lag district-wide, with all four schools falling 16 to 26 points below the state average of 29.7%. Spending does not predict outcomes: Rehoboth Road spends the most ($15,751 per student) and performs best, but Carver Road outperforms Cowan Road despite only $722 more per student. The strong correlation between attendance and achievement suggests that tackling chronic absenteeism—especially at Kennedy Road (33.4%) and Cowan Road (31.4%)—could be the highest-leverage strategy for improvement.
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