Schools · Tifton

Tifton, GA schools

Tifton’s public schools score well below Georgia’s averages: 31% of students are proficient in reading against 38.5% statewide, and 86% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.8%. Kids attend one of 6 elementary schools through grade 5, then Eighth Street Middle School or Northeast Middle School and Tift County High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

B-School Grade #121Best schools in GA (of 231)#169Highest graduation rate in GA (of 256)

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Tifton’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Tifton’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 53% of Georgia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

B-Test scoresC-Graduation

Georgia school districts we grade (214)Better than 47%

Lower resultsHigher results

Georgia towns with similar household incomes (228)Better than 51%

High confidence. Built on 2,336 tested students and a graduating class of 593; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Georgia’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Georgia only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Georgia with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.