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Black student results in Cherokee County

Across 33 schools in Cherokee County, 43% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 13.4 points above the Georgia average for Black students.

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54.6%
All students
43%
Black
40.4%
Hispanic
61.6%
White
77.9%
Asian

Average across the 33 schools in Cherokee County with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 29 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Avery Elementary School reports 69.4% of Black students meeting the standard. R. M. Moore Elementary School, in the same district, reports 23.9%. That is a 45.5-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Cherokee County

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient or distinguished. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Avery Elementary School 66.1% 69.4% 49.6% 68.1% 93.5%
Creekview High School 66.9% 63.4% 47% 70%
Sixes Elementary School 61.7% 58.4% 62% 61% 85%
River Ridge High School 64.9% 57.1% 52.3% 70.3% 75.7%
Bascomb Elementary School 64.6% 56.7% 63.3% 66.3%
Hickory Flat Elementary School 68% 51.9% 56.2% 70.7% 81.1%
Etowah High School 56.6% 50.9% 39.1% 66.1% 77.1%
Mountain Road Elementary School 63.8% 50% 45.9% 67.4% 82.3%
Holly Springs Elementary School 51.5% 50% 35.6% 56.3%
Little River Elem. 61.5% 49.5% 51.5% 63.3% 82.6%
Woodstock High School 58.7% 48.8% 46.7% 66.2% 68.2%
Creekland Middle School 59% 45.9% 39.5% 61.7% 81.5%
Johnston Elementary School 51.5% 45.4% 38% 56.3% 93.8%
Dean Rusk Middle School 57.9% 43.1% 39.7% 62.9% 75.7%
E. T. Booth Middle School 50.1% 43% 30% 58.8% 74.3%
Freedom Middle School 55.2% 42.2% 38% 61% 77.8%
Sequoyah High School 58.9% 41.8% 39.4% 66.2% 73.3%
Oak Grove Elementary School 34.7% 38.8% 22.6% 48.4%
Clark Creek Elementary School 42.5% 38.6% 30.7% 45.7% 80.9%
Carmel Elementary School 52.8% 38.1% 39.2% 67.3%
Woodstock Elementary School 49.5% 37.3% 39.2% 56% 65.5%
Mill Creek Middle School 58.9% 37.3% 38.2% 66.4% 79.4%
Boston Elementary School 44.4% 36.8% 24.3% 51.9%
Woodstock Middle School 50.9% 36.5% 33.4% 62.8% 74.2%
Indian Knoll Elementary 55.8% 36.4% 42.2% 58.9% 91.7%
Liberty Elementary School 51.6% 36.1% 40% 58.1%
Macedonia Elementary School 63.5% 35% 44.3% 66.6%
Arnold Mill Elementary School 64.5% 34.1% 54.2% 70.7% 61.1%
Cherokee High School 44.8% 33.4% 30.3% 57.2% 70%
J. Knox Elementary 55.2% 33.3% 44.4% 64.6%
William G. Hasty, Sr. Elementary School 36.5% 30.2% 28.1% 62.3%
Teasley Middle School 40.3% 24.5% 25.9% 54% 68.2%
R. M. Moore Elementary School 37.8% 23.9% 23.6% 48.2%

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.

How to read this. 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. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Georgia figures should not be compared against another state's.

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