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Black student results in Clayton County

Across 65 schools in Clayton County, 22.2% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 7.4 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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23.7%
All students
22.2%
Black
23.9%
Hispanic
28.5%
White
52.3%
Asian

Average across the 65 schools in Clayton 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 65 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Elite Scholars Academy School reports 94.2% of Black students meeting the standard. Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for Learning, in the same district, reports 1.9%. That is a 92.3-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Clayton 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
Elite Scholars Academy School 95.4% 94.2% 96.2% 99.2%
Martha Ellen Stilwell School for the Performing Arts 60.5% 58.2% 65.6%
Unidos Dual Language School 40.4% 50.5% 35.7%
Kay R Pace Elementary School of the Arts 43.5% 43% 30%
North Clayton High School 38.5% 37.1% 35.9% 88%
River's Edge Elementary School 33.2% 31.8% 25.9%
Arnold Elementary School 34.4% 31.6% 26.5% 54.5% 75%
M. D. Roberts Middle School 30.7% 31% 26.4% 34.1% 51.2%
Jonesboro High School 31.2% 30.8% 26.7% 25%
Oliver Elementary School 31.5% 28.4% 44.7%
Hawthorne Elementary School 24.7% 26.1% 20.4%
Kemp Elementary School 26.7% 25.8% 31.1% 37.5%
Brown Elementary School 25.3% 25.4% 22.8%
Northcutt Elementary School 25% 25.2% 18.9%
William M. McGarrah Elementary School 27.6% 24.7% 21.1% 64.3%
Charles R. Drew High School 25% 24.4% 23.6% 52.4%
Fountain Elementary School 28.6% 24.1% 33.2%
Riverdale High School 26.7% 23.9% 33.1%
Rex Mill Middle School 26% 23.6% 30% 27.8% 60.7%
Swint Elementary School 23.2% 23.5% 18.2%
Michelle Obama STEM Elementary Academy 25.8% 23.4% 44.8% 63.6%
Callaway Elementary School 22.2% 22.7% 17.5%
Lake Ridge Elementary School 18.4% 22.5% 11.7%
Anderson Elementary School 24.4% 22.5% 28.1%
Harper Elementary School 19.1% 21.5% 15.9%
Mount Zion High School 23.1% 21.1% 24.3%
Eddie White Middle School 21.1% 21% 18.2% 24.9% 42.9%
Mundy's Mill High School 22% 20.9% 29.1%
Forest Park High School 24.1% 20.9% 23.3% 23.1% 56.1%
Morrow Elementary School 25.7% 20.7% 23.5% 40.5%
Haynie Elementary School 24.8% 20.7% 26.1% 36.2%
Utopian Academy for the Arts High School Charter 21.2% 19.8%
Adamson Middle School 20.1% 19.3% 21.9% 32.1%
Roberta T. Smith Elementary School 19.2% 19.3% 18%
Morrow High School 21.4% 19.2% 18.9% 48.2%
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School 20.1% 19% 12.1% 48.9%
Edmonds Elementary School 19.8% 18.3% 22.2%
Suder Elementary School 20.7% 18.1% 25%
North Clayton Middle School 20% 17.9% 22.4%
Mount Zion Elementary School 19.7% 17.7% 21.8% 45.5%
Tara Elementary School 19.2% 17.7% 21.2%
Utopian Academy for the Arts Middle School 17.7% 17.1% 17.3%
Lake City Elementary School 25.5% 17.1% 22.6% 53%
Kilpatrick Elementary School 19.2% 16.8% 21.4%
Babb Middle School 23.7% 16.8% 23.4% 10.7% 56.9%
Lovejoy High School 17.5% 16.8% 19.2%
Huie Elementary School 17% 16.7% 16.3%
Pointe South Middle School 16.5% 16.1% 17.7%
Riverdale Elementary School 20.4% 16.1% 25.7%
Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School 16.6% 16% 18.4%
Mundys Mill Middle School 17.2% 15.9% 19.9% 30%
Kendrick Middle School 17.1% 15.9% 19.6%
Utopian Academy for the Arts Elementary School Charter 16.4% 15.6% 13.6%
East Clayton Elementary School 18.2% 15.5% 21.3% 55%
Morrow Middle School 22.5% 15.4% 21.9% 22.7% 54.1%
James Jackson Elementary School 18.8% 15.2% 21.1% 50%
Pointe South Elementary School 15% 14.2% 13.7%
Sequoyah Middle School 16.2% 14% 17.9% 34.1%
Jonesboro Middle School 14.7% 13% 17.3% 8.3% 57.7%
Riverdale Middle School 13.8% 12.8% 14.9% 46.1%
West Clayton Elementary School 10.8% 11.4% 4.8%
Church Street Elementary School 15.4% 11% 25.9% 30%
Forest Park Middle School 10.5% 8.1% 11.1% 10%
Lee Street Elementary School 8.2% 7.1% 8.8%
Perry Career Academy - Eula Wilburn Ponds Perry Center for Learning 2.7% 1.9% 4.1%

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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