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Black student results in City Schools of Decatur

Across 4 schools in City Schools of Decatur, 37.6% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 8 points above the Georgia average for Black students.

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72.2%
All students
37.6%
Black
75.3%
Hispanic
81.5%
White
83.7%
Asian

Average across the 4 schools in City Schools of Decatur 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 4 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School reports 42.8% of Black students meeting the standard. Decatur High School, in the same district, reports 29.9%. That is a 12.9-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in City Schools of Decatur

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
Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary School 75.7% 42.8% 78% 80.1% 93.3%
Talley Street Upper Elementary School 72.1% 39.5% 70.1% 82.2% 86.8%
Beacon Hill Middle School 75.8% 38.3% 80.3% 84.4% 81.5%
Decatur High School 65.1% 29.9% 72.8% 79.3% 73.2%

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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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