The Georgia Department of Education identified a pair of Bulloch County schools on a list released Tuesday of 156 schools that need to address graduation rates and gaps in achievement between groups of students. William James Middle School and Julia P. Bryant Elementary School each have been recognized as “focus schools,” one of three new designations required to be used by Georgia and other states that received a waiver from federal No Child Left Behind accountability mandates. The label is applied to schools that have a graduation rate of less than 60 percent over the previous two years or with large gaps between highest and lowest achieving subgroups of students, according to the Georgia Department of Education.