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Black student results in Colquitt County

Across 12 schools in Colquitt County, 17.8% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 11.8 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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35.1%
All students
17.8%
Black
34%
Hispanic
44.7%
White
61.6%
Asian

Average across the 12 schools in Colquitt 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 12 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Funston Elementary School reports 26.4% of Black students meeting the standard. Doerun Elementary School, in the same district, reports 3.9%. That is a 22.5-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Colquitt 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
Funston Elementary School 37.5% 26.4% 37.7% 44.3%
Colquitt County High School 38.8% 24.6% 36.5% 51.8% 54.5%
Wright Elementary School 55.1% 24.3% 33.4% 72%
Okapilco Elementary School 29.7% 21.1% 36.1% 36.1%
Sunset Elementary School 45.1% 19.7% 53.2% 56.6%
Norman Park Elementary School 46.9% 17.9% 37.8% 53.9%
Willie J. Williams Middle School 37.3% 17.7% 31.3% 55.1% 68.7%
Stringfellow Elementary School 27.6% 17.7% 36.9%
Odom Elementary School 26.4% 14.6% 31.2% 22.7%
Cox Elementary School 20% 13.1% 25.8% 15.8%
CA Gray Junior High School 30.4% 13% 30.4% 43.2%
Doerun Elementary School 27% 3.9% 17.8% 40%

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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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