Knowing the fundamental importance of early literacy and students’ ability to read proficiently by third grade, the Georgia Department of Education is recognizing schools with exceptional achievement or growth in third grade reading as 2022-2023 Literacy Leaders.
The Toombs County School System is excited to announce that Toombs Central Elementary School has been named a Literacy Leader by the Georgia Department of Education. Toombs Central Elementary earned this recognition by showing a 15% or higher increase in third grade reading scores from 2021-22 to 2022-23.
Toombs Central is 1 of only 155 schools that met the qualifications to be recognized as a Literacy Leader.
Literacy Leader qualifications use the Georgia Milestones Reading Status indicator, which is based on the Lexile score associated with students’ performance on a subset of questions on the ELA assessment.