When it comes to the Georgia High School Graduation Test, Fayette County students could hardly do better.

Countywide totals for students on the four individual test components showed a pass rate of 95 to 98 percent.

Fayette students completing all four tests on their first attempt in spring 2009 had a combined pass rate of 92 percent, the same combined score as in 2008.

Compared to systems statewide, the 92 percent score was higher than all but two of Georgia’s school systems.

The graduation test is given to juniors in the spring of the year and is essentially four tests in one. These include English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Science and Social Studies.

As with first-time test takers in 2008, Fayette 11th-graders taking the four graduation tests this spring tested significantly better than the state average.

Ninety-two percent of Fayette students in both years passed the test on their first attempt compared to 80.11 percent of students statewide, according to information provided at the Georgia Department of Education website.

A school-by-school breakdown of the percentage of students with passing scores in Fayette from spring 2009 showed little deviation between test scores in the four categories:

Fayette County High School showed scores for ELA at 95 percent, Math at 95 percent, Science at 92 percent and Social Studies at 91 percent.

McIntosh High School had graduation test pass rates of 96 percent in ELA, 97 percent in Math, 96 percent in Science and 95 percent in Social Studies.

Sandy Creek High School pass rates in ELA of 94 percent, in Math at 96 percent, in Science at 90 percent and in Social Studies at 92 percent.

Starr’s Mill High School had passing scores in ELA at 96 percent, in Math at 98 percent, in Science at 96 percent and in Social Studies at 98 percent.

And at Whitewater High School, the percentage of students passing the graduation test included 96 percent in ELA, 97 percent in Math, 94 percent in Science and 94 percent in Social Studies.

Only two other school districts in Georgia did as well Fayette on the first outing. Trion City had 95 percent of 11th graders passing all four components the first time and Cherokee County had 94 percent. And like Fayette, Forsyth County tallied a score of 92 percent.

In a sampling of other school systems around the state, Coweta County had 86 percent of students pass all four tests in their first outing, while Spalding came in at 76 percent and Henry at 83 percent. Eighty-five percent of Cobb County 11th graders passed all four test the first-time around while Gwinnett County showed 87 percent.