The College and Career Ready Performance Index released by the Georgia Department of Education, and based on data from the 2015-2016 academic year, shows score increases across the board for all school levels.

The school system’s overall score, 87.4, is a 5.5-point increase from last year’s score of 81.9. Fayette’s score is also 13.8 points higher than the state’s overall score of 73.6.

Elementary schools scored 85.1, up one point from last year. Middle schools scored 85.6, a 3.8-point increase from last year, and high schools saw the largest score increase, 10.6 points, with a score of 89.1 compared to last year’s 78.5. The county’s school level scores also exceed the state’s scores of 71.7 for elementary schools, 71.5 for middle schools, and 73.6 for high schools.

The CCRPI is Georgia’s statewide accountability system, implemented in 2012 to replace No Child Left Behind’s Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) measurement, after the U.S. Department of Education granted Georgia’s waiver from NCLB. It measures schools and school districts on a 100-point scale based on multiple indicators of performance.