The Georgia Milestones Assessment System is a comprehensive assessment program mandated by the Georgia Department of Education for elementary, middle, and high school students. 

The scores released on Jul 22, 2022 include scores for students in grades 3 - 8. 

The Georgia Milestones Assessment System is designed to provide information about how well students are mastering the state-adopted content standards in the core content areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.  

Due to disruptions to home and school environments, the most recent Georgia Milestones scores are not comparable to pre-pandemic years. 

Many students were attending virtual classes and some lost a significant amount of instructional time. 

In school year 2020-202, only 34% of students in grades 3-8 took the Georgia Milestones End-of-Grade assessments.  

Less than 20% of students enrolled in high school courses requiring an End-of-Course assessment took the test. 

The Georgia Department of Education, in line with federal guidance, made it clear that school districts should not require virtual students to come into the building solely for the purpose of taking Georgia Milestones. 

Scores indicate 31.2% of APS students in grades 3-8 scored proficient or above in English Language Arts (ELA) and 26% scored proficient or above in Math.

• (APS Insights) APS 2022 Georgia Milestones:  Relationship Between School Performance and Poverty, 2022
• The reports released by GaDOE.

Atlanta Public Schools will continue implementing its academic recovery plan, part of the district’s overall strategy to increase student growth and achievement. 

APS already had a strategy in place to help our students called the APS5 and includes an Academic Recovery Plan. 

At the beginning of last school year (2021-2022), APS began implementing a three-year academic recovery plan through the 2023-2024 school year to address lost learning opportunities due to the pandemic. It features: 

• School-Based Intervention Class/Block/Course  
• August 2021 - May 2024 
• Elementary School: 30 extra minutes in class 
• Middle School: 45 extra minutes, four days each week (a block, ELA or Math class) 
• High School: 90 extra minutes, four days each week (a class or course only for students identified for intervention) 
• Summer Academic Recover Academy (ARA) 
• June 2021 - June 2023 
• Full day sessions for elementary and middle school students 
• Focus on literacy and math, with enrichment activities in the afternoon 
• Credit recovery for high school students 
• Comprehensive Assessment System 
• On going  
• K-12 universal screener for academics and behavioral health 
• Student progress monitoring tools 
• Formative assessments 

The APS5 is our overall academic strategy to help close the achievement gap and to help our students get back on track after the unprecedented loss of academic instruction time during the pandemic. 

APS is focusing on five measurable methods to guide its academic strategy, based around the district’s five-year strategic plan:  

• Data
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Whole-Child Intervention
• Personalized Learning
• Signature Programming.  

Watch a video what the APS 5 is about.

The APS 5 is a 5-year strategy. You can read below how we have implemented the program since its inception at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year. 

• In 2021-2022, the district established structures and deployed resources to support the academic strategy equitably in all schools. 
• In 2022-2023, the district will focus on effective implementation of and support for the academic strategy, and monitor the plan’s progress through the use of district and state data. 
• In 2023-2024, the district will continue monitoring the plan’s progress, assessing, reviewing and making any adjustments based on the data.  

Contact your child’s/children’s teacher and school for information on their individual scores.