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How Black students are performing in Georgia schools

In Muscogee County, the gap between the best and worst schools for Black children is 91 points. This tool helps you find the right one.

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38.2%
All students
29.6%
Black
35.5%
Hispanic
51.9%
White
67.2%
Asian

Share of students meeting proficient or distinguished at the typical Georgia school. Groups are shown wherever Georgia reports them; a group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

These figures come from GOSA Milestones 2024–25, measuring proficient or distinguished in All Subjects · Grades 3–12. Across 214 districts, 2,021 Georgia schools report enough results to be included.

At the typical Georgia school the picture is black students at 29.6%, hispanic students at 35.5%, white students at 51.9% and asian students at 67.2%. That is a 37.6-point spread between the highest and lowest group, inside the same schools, the same districts and the same state — which is what this tool exists to make visible.

What the Georgia data shows

Landscape
0.6 %

of Georgia schools earn an A for Black students

An A means 80% or more of Black students at that school are proficient or better. Georgia's bar is independently verified as one of the nation's strictest — this number reflects that rigor, not a direct comparison to other states' tests.

Disparity
90.7 pts

gap between the best and worst schools for Black students in Muscogee County

Britt David Magnet Academy has 94.4% of its Black students proficient. Johnson Elementary, in the same district, has 3.7%. The district you live in doesn't determine your child's outcome — the specific school does.

Opportunity
9

schools where 80%+ of Black students are proficient — with enough students to make it meaningful

Each of these 9 schools has at least 50 Black student results. A high rate with only a handful of students is easy to achieve. These schools have earned it at scale.

Where Black students are doing best in Georgia

These are the schools where Black students most often meet proficient or distinguished, among those with at least 25 Black student results reported. Every group's result is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and TechnologyGwinnett County 98.9% 100% 100% 97.3% 98.8%
Kittredge Magnet SchoolDeKalb County Magnet 99.1% 97.1% 100% 99% 100%
Wadsworth Magnet School for High AchieversDeKalb County Magnet 95.6% 94.9% 100% 96.8% 100%
Britt David Magnet AcademyMuscogee County 94.3% 94.4% 90.5% 95.2% 95.2%
Elite Scholars Academy SchoolClayton County 95.4% 94.2% 96.2% 99.2%
Marietta Center for Advanced AcademicsMarietta City 93.6% 92.4% 90.2% 95.8% 95.4%
Dekalb Early College AcademyDeKalb County 81.6% 84.2% 68.8% 70%
Columbus High SchoolMuscogee County Magnet 89.3% 81.8% 86.4% 90.8% 98.8%
Timber Ridge Elementary SchoolCobb County 81.7% 81.2% 83.4% 82.8% 80.8%
Davidson Fine Arts MagnetRichmond County Magnet 86.7% 81% 87.5% 92.8% 100%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

Where Black students are struggling most

The same measure at the other end of the range. In many of these schools every group is falling short, which points at the school rather than at the students in it.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Atlanta Area School for the DeafState Schools Sped 0% 0% 0%
Moore Street FacilityDublin City 2.7% 0%
Second ChanceEvans County 3.3% 0% 3.4%
Youth Villages at Inner HarbourDouglas County 0% 0% 0%
South Georgia Regional Achievement Center, The PhoenixDougherty County 0% 0%
KidsPeaceCarroll County 0% 0% 0%
Delta Innovative SchoolBrooks County 0% 0%
Hank Aaron New Beginnings AcademyAtlanta Public Schools Alt 0.9% 0.6%
The Hope Academy SchoolTroup County 5.1% 1.1% 22.7%
Classic City High SchoolClarke County 1.2% 1.3%

One district, two outcomes

In Gwinnett County, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology reports 100% of Black students meeting the standard. Gwinnett Intervention Education Center (GIVE) West, in the same district, reports 4.9%. That is a 95.1-point spread across 138 schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base — the clearest illustration of why address matters more than it should.

Georgia districts

Districts with at least ten schools reporting Black student results, by school count. The percentage shown is the average across that district's schools for Black students.

Gwinnett County — 138 schools, 43.3% average
DeKalb County — 121 schools, 29% average
Cobb County — 106 schools, 40.4% average
Fulton County — 102 schools, 41.7% average
Atlanta Public Schools — 86 schools, 25.3% average
Clayton County — 65 schools, 22.2% average
Savannah-Chatham County — 53 schools, 24% average
Henry County — 53 schools, 26.5% average
Muscogee County — 51 schools, 21.9% average
Richmond County — 48 schools, 16.5% average
Forsyth County — 36 schools, 48.9% average
Douglas County — 35 schools, 31.4% average
Bibb County — 34 schools, 19.2% average
Paulding County — 34 schools, 31.3% average
Houston County — 32 schools, 33.8% average
Cherokee County — 29 schools, 42.4% average
Columbia County — 29 schools, 44.5% average
Coweta County — 29 schools, 28.2% average
Fayette County — 24 schools, 53.8% average
Carroll County — 22 schools, 28.2% average
Newton County — 22 schools, 21.9% average
Clarke County — 21 schools, 15.6% average
Dougherty County — 21 schools, 25.8% average
Rockdale County — 18 schools, 25.6% average
Troup County — 18 schools, 26% average
Barrow County — 17 schools, 25.7% average
Hall County — 17 schools, 23.1% average
Griffin-Spalding County — 17 schools, 18.3% average
Glynn County — 16 schools, 29% average
Bartow County — 15 schools, 26.9% average
Bulloch County — 15 schools, 24.3% average
Walton County — 15 schools, 36.3% average
Effingham County — 13 schools, 39.7% average
Camden County — 12 schools, 37.1% average
Colquitt County — 12 schools, 17.8% average
Liberty County — 12 schools, 25.1% average
Coffee County — 11 schools, 20.4% average
Lowndes County — 11 schools, 38.6% average
Tift County — 11 schools, 20.5% average
Marietta City — 11 schools, 41.3% average
How these averages are calculated. The figures above average across Georgia schools, giving each school equal weight. They describe the typical school, not the state's tested population, and will differ from the headline figure GOSA Milestones 2024–25 publishes — that one weights every student equally, so larger schools count for more. Use the state's own published figure when citing a statewide number.

How to read the school data. Georgia suppresses results for very small groups, shown in the source data as “TFS” (too few students). Those schools appear as no data rather than zero. This ranking reflects the 2024–25 school year, combining End-of-Grade (grades 3–8) and End-of-Course (grades 9–12) results. GOSA publishes updated data annually. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Georgia's figures should not be compared directly against another state's.

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