While students in the Cobb County School District surpassed state averages in a number of categories in the 2025 Georgia Milestones test results, some of those numbers are down from last year, including schools in East Cobb.
The Georgia Department of Education on Friday released its 2025 results, which show some gains in mathematics results after new standards were introduced in 2024.
Fifth-graders at elementary schools in East Cobb turned in some of the best math results in Cobb and across the state, according to data provided by the state (and summarized in the table below).
But third-grade reading scores were down at a number of schools over 2024 (see table below), in one of the key early benchmark educational indicators.
Here’s the link to the Georgia Milestones dashboard, but a warning: There is a massive amount of information and instructions on how to use it.
Broader state education data, including district- and school-level test results, can be found at this link.
That’s where we referenced spreadsheets to list school-level results for schools in East Cobb (spring 2025 End of Grade and spring 2025 End of Course).
Due to the amount of data and explanation involved, we will be breaking out these results in two stories.
In this post, we will detail the results of those two elementary school categories.
In a separate post, will look at middle school and high school results.
For the Georgia Milestones assessments, students are tested in grades 3-8 in English Language Arts, reading and math, in grades 5-8 in those subjects plus science, and all those subjects plus social studies in grade 8. High school students are tested in American Literature, algebra, biology and U.S. history.
A total of 20 different assessments are measured at the end of each semester, as well as the end of the school year.
Students are categorized in one of four levels, based on those test scores: Level 1 is Beginning Learner, Level 2 is a Developing Learner, Level 3 is a Proficient Learner and Level 4 is Distinguished Learner.
The state education department said Friday that the percentage of students achieving the Proficient Learner level or above increased in six of the seven mathematics assessments in 2025.
The Cobb school district’s release (you can read it here) was devoted more to middle- and high school test results that we’ll examine in more detail in a separate post.
While numerous East Cobb schools showed strong results in third-grade reading, only a few of them were improvements over 2024.
Among those schools with higher results this year include Blackwell (a gain of nearly 10 percentage points of students testing with a proficiency at grade level or above, to 74.2 percent).
Seven schools had 90 percent or more of its students reaching that benchmark.
One of them, Mt. Bethel Elementary School, also is one of four schools in East Cobb in which 80 percent or more of the students tested showing reading proficiency at grade level or above.
Mt. Bethel also is one of seven schools in East Cobb in which 40 percent or more of the students tested are considered “distinguished learners,” the highest level of proficiency.
Again, what follows is a sampling of just two of the state’s elementary school assessments. The downloadable spring 2025 End of Grade and spring 2025 End of Course spreadsheets contain all results by school name, grade and subject.
3rd Grade Reading
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5th Grade Math
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