Six Richmond County high schools made notable gains in subject areas and other schools made grade level improvements on the Georgia Milestones test for the 2023-2024 school year.
“In 2023, we made a goal to increase student content mastery in tested subject areas on the Georgia Milestones by 3%. I am proud to say that we exceeded that 3% goal in U.S. History on our end of course tests for the district. We also surpassed that goal on End of Grade tests in language arts, physical science, and social studies for fifth, sixth, and eighth graders. Many of our schools also showed significant improvement on content areas as well,” said Kenneth Bradshaw, Richmond County Superintendent of Schools, in a July 29 news release from the school district.
More than 13,000 RCSS students completed the assessments during the 2023-2024 school year.
“These improvements are a collaborative effort between our educators, staff, and students, and I am grateful for their hard work. We will build on these efforts this upcoming school year as we focus on student achievement, post-high school readiness, and increasing the number of highly effective teachers and leaders in our system,” Bradshaw said.
Notable gains on 2023-2024 Georgia Milestones for RCSS include:
- End of Course improvements in the subjects of biology and U.S. History across the system.
- Third, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth graders showed end of grade improvement in English Language Arts..
- Eighth graders also showed end of grade improvements in science and social studies.
- George P. Butler Comprehensive High School and A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet School improved scores in American literature.
- Hephzibah Comprehensive High School and Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School improved scores in biology.
- Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School, the Academy of Richmond County and Cross Creek Comprehensive High School significantly improved their scores in U.S. History.
Mathematics scores will be released by the Georgia Department of Education later this fall.
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