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Black student results in Clarke County

Across 21 schools in Clarke County, 15.6% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 14 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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28.4%
All students
15.6%
Black
25.6%
Hispanic
61.4%
White
72.7%
Asian

Average across the 21 schools in Clarke 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 21 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Timothy Elementary School reports 30.9% of Black students meeting the standard. Classic City High School, in the same district, reports 1.3%. That is a 29.6-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Clarke 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
Timothy Elementary School 50.6% 30.9% 39.4% 72.5%
Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School 36.1% 26.2% 29.6% 74.1%
Judia Jackson Harris Elementary 28.4% 25.3% 28.6% 38.4%
Whitehead Road Elementary School 36.1% 23% 26.3% 79.6%
Clarke Central High School 36.1% 21.3% 28.6% 74.3%
Cleveland Road Elementary School 31.1% 19.8% 24.7% 61.1%
Fowler Drive Elementary School 24.6% 19.6% 23.9% 50%
Winterville Elementary School 25.6% 18.1% 21% 50%
Cedar Shoals High School 21.8% 16.8% 19.6% 48.3%
Barnett Shoals Elementary School 39.1% 16% 36% 74.6%
Johnnie Lay Burks Elementary School 54.5% 15.9% 32.6% 88.3%
Whit Davis Road Elementary School 30.7% 15.3% 25.5% 56.5%
Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School 26.4% 13.5% 14.1% 58.7%
Clarke Middle School 37.3% 10.7% 32.3% 72.2% 68.2%
Coile Middle School 16.6% 10.1% 19.2% 33%
Bettye Henderson Holston Elementary School 12.8% 9.8% 20%
Barrow Elementary School 43.5% 9.3% 40.5% 76.3% 77.2%
Hilsman Middle School 23.2% 9.1% 23.3% 62.2%
Howard B. Stroud Elementary School 10.3% 7.9% 11.5%
Gaines Elementary School 10.6% 7.1% 15.6% 34.5%
Classic City High School 1.2% 1.3%

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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