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Education
JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM
4-Year Cohort
Graduation Rate
2019 95.8%
The Jackson County School System (JCSS)
is growing with its community, serving
approximately 8,400 students in six
elementary, two middle, and two
high schools.
With a graduation rate of 95.8% — ranking
it No. 15 of Georgia’s school systems —
JCSS focuses on student success through
leadership, character, and performance.
It was ranked 18th overall, No. 10 in
elementary, and No. 22 in high school
performance among the 206 city, county,
state, and charter school systems reported
in Georgia’s College and Career Ready
Performance Index.
A leader in innovation and personalized JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOLS AGRICULTURE MECHANIC CLASS
learning, JCSS is the only system in the U.S.
chosen to pilot the Google EDU Culture of
Innovation Program/Project Culture Shift,
and the school system is embracing the
COMMERCE HIGH SCHOOL
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