In their final encounter with the Criterion Referenced Competency Tests, Bulloch County students passed at a rate higher than or equal to the state's in half of the grade-level subject areas. So the flipside is, the Bulloch County Schools' passing rates, or the combined rates at which students either met or exceeded the grade-level standards, were lower than the state success rates for the other half of test areas for grades 3-8. But among the oldest students who took the CRCT, eighth-graders, Bulloch's passing rates topped the state's in all five subjects tested.