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Black student results at Murphey Candler Elementary School

DeKalb County, Georgia

14.6%
of Black students meet proficient or distinguished

At Murphey Candler Elementary School, 14.6% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished — 0.9 points below the 15.5% recorded for all students at the same school, and 14.7 points below the 29.3% average for Black students across DeKalb County.

Among the 123 schools in DeKalb County with reportable Black student results, this one ranks 107th. Across Georgia, the average for Black students is 29.6%.

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Every group at this school

15.5%
All students
14.6%
Black

Share of students meeting proficient or distinguished at Murphey Candler Elementary School. A group is omitted when too few students were tested to report safely.

How it compares inside DeKalb County

The schools ranked immediately above and below this one for Black student results, so the number above has something to sit against.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Dunaire Elementary School 19.5% 15.1% 13.6% 32%
Jolly Elementary School 16.7% 15% 28.3% 12.5% 18.1%
McLendon Elementary School 21.5% 14.8% 25% 20.8%
Stone Mountain High School 16.4% 14.8% 17% 9.1% 29.3%
Stone Mountain Elementary School 17.4% 14.7% 17.2% 42.2%
Murphey Candler Elementary School This school 15.5% 14.6%
Oak View Elementary 16.6% 14.4% 21.9%
Toney Elementary School 15.1% 13.9%
Columbia Elementary School 14.9% 13.4%
Fairington Elementary School 13.8% 13.3%
Panola Way Elementary School 14.1% 13% 28%

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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.