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Black student results in Dalton Public Schools

Across 7 schools in Dalton Public Schools, 31.2% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 1.6 points above the Georgia average for Black students.

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40%
All students
31.2%
Black
34.3%
Hispanic
59.9%
White
64.8%
Asian

Average across the 7 schools in Dalton Public Schools 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 6 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Westwood Elementary School reports 43.1% of Black students meeting the standard. City Park Elementary School, in the same district, reports 21.1%. That is a 22-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Dalton Public Schools

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
Westwood Elementary School 52.8% 43.1% 46.6% 65.8%
Brookwood Elementary School 50.9% 40% 36.5% 68.1% 68.7%
Dalton High School 36% 35.7% 31.5% 55.4% 64.7%
Hammond Creek Middle School 42.7% 31% 36.4% 67.8% 61.1%
Dalton Jr. High School 35.7% 27.8% 29.5% 57.7%
City Park Elementary School 32.3% 21.1% 29.2% 44.6%
Roan Elementary School 29.8% 20% 30.3%

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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