Mount Zion High School has received a 2024 Governor's Office of Student Achievement Award for exhibiting high growth in student achievement. Over the last three years, academic growth has been in the top 3 percent of schools in the state.
The Greatest Gains award category has four tiers: platinum, gold, silver and bronze. In order to be placed in the gold category, schools must:
a) Place between the 97th and 99th percentile statewide in the average CCRPI Progress Score over the last three years;
b) Earn a CCRPI Single Score in 2024 that is no more than 10 points lower than the CCRPI Single Score in 2019; and
c) Be excluded from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement's 2024 Georgia Promise Scholarship Public School List, and the Georgia Department of Education's 2024 Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) and Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) lists.
Mount Zion High School is one of 146 Greatest Gains schools in the state and one of only 19 schools to receive the 2024 Gold Award for Greatest Gains.