What Georgia publishes about lead testing in its schools’ drinking water, what those numbers cover, and how we checked it. One row of a 51-jurisdiction survey, verified jurisdiction by jurisdiction rather than compiled from a single list.
GeorgiaPublishes nothing (confirmed at source)
Published action level, as verified in 2026: The jurisdiction publishes no action level of its own.
Action levels are not comparable between jurisdictions: across the 51 we surveyed they run from 1 ppb to 20 ppb, so a share of results above “the action level” measures the threshold as much as it measures the water. We never rank states on it. Where a jurisdiction explains how its own level was set, the verified research note at the foot of this page records the explanation verbatim.
We found no school lead testing results published by Georgia. That is confirmed at source: we checked the jurisdiction's own pages or data platform and found no results in them.
An absence of published results is a fact about disclosure, not about water. It says nothing about whether schools here have been tested, and nothing about what a test would find.
The baseline is the National Association of State Boards of Education’s 2021 survey. Every 2026 value below was re-checked for this survey; a value that did not move is a finding too.
Changed since the 2021 baseline: publishes results.
Our field note for Georgia, published verbatim rather than summarised. Where it quotes a figure from a source, that is the source’s own number reproduced as we recorded it, not a rate we computed — everything we compute states its denominator and its unit.
⚠️ CORRECTED on direct API test. An earlier pass recorded Georgia as publishing because the RTI dashboard route returns HTTP 200. It does -- but it is EMPTY. The platform API lists only 42 Georgia facilities and every one has has_results_available=false and has_legacy_results_available=null. North Carolina on the identical platform returns 10,482 facilities with 2,083 carrying results, so this is Georgia's tenant being unpopulated, not a platform fault. A live dashboard with zero results tells a parent nothing, so this counts as not publishing. ⚠️ FOLLOW-UP: Environment America has reported 45% of 2,000+ Georgia samples above the recommended standard, so testing data exists somewhere; it is simply not in the portal EPA points to. Find where before finalising. Coverage and data vintage are left blank rather than rated: both describe published data, and this jurisdiction publishes none.
TapWaterData Editorial. "School drinking water lead testing: Georgia." TapWaterData national school drinking-water lead testing database. Last updated 2026-08-09. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. https://www.tapwaterdata.com/school-lead-testing/georgia
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title = {School drinking water lead testing: Georgia},
year = {2026},
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note = {Last updated 2026-08-09. Licensed under CC BY 4.0}
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