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Black student results at Robert Shaw Theme School

DeKalb County, Georgia

76.8%
of Black students meet proficient or distinguished

At Robert Shaw Theme School, 76.8% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished — 0.3 points above the 76.5% recorded for all students at the same school, and 47.5 points above 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 4th. Across Georgia, the average for Black students is 29.6%.

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Every group at this school

76.5%
All students
76.8%
Black

Share of students meeting proficient or distinguished at Robert Shaw Theme 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
Kittredge Magnet School Magnet 99.1% 97.1% 100% 99% 100%
Wadsworth Magnet School for High Achievers Magnet 95.6% 94.9% 100% 96.8% 100%
Dekalb Early College Academy 81.6% 84.2% 68.8% 70%
Robert Shaw Theme School This school 76.5% 76.8%
DeKalb School of the Arts Magnet 80.7% 74.8% 70% 95.4%
Austin Elementary School 82.6% 65.8% 84.6% 86.3% 80.3%
Oakcliff Elementary School 26.6% 60% 23.1% 59.4%
DeKalb PATH Academy Charter School Charter 24.7% 56.2% 22% 60%
Oak Grove Elementary School 73.8% 55.2% 68.2% 75.1% 92.9%

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.

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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.