Schools in Tift County · Tift County

About schools in Tift County

Len Lastinger Elementary leads Tift County's 11 public schools, ranking at the 69th percentile statewide — the highest mark in a single-district system centered on Tifton. G. O. Bailey Elementary and Eighth Street Middle School follow closely, both landing near the 60th percentile. No schools here crack the state's top quartile, but the upper tier clusters competitively enough to suggest real consistency at the elementary and middle levels. Families considering Tift County will find a compact, manageable district where the strongest performers sit within a few percentage points of one another rather than scattered across a wide range.