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Black student results at Vanderlyn Elementary School

DeKalb County, Georgia

31.5%
of Black students meet proficient or distinguished

At Vanderlyn Elementary School, 31.5% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished — 40.7 points below the 72.2% recorded for all students at the same school, and 2.2 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 38th. Across Georgia, the average for Black students is 29.6%.

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Every group at this school

72.2%
All students
31.5%
Black
40.9%
Hispanic
82.4%
White
77.1%
Asian

Share of students meeting proficient or distinguished at Vanderlyn 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
Hawthorne Elementary School 33.8% 36.7% 11.3% 72.3%
Leadership Preparatory Academy Charter 36.1% 36.1%
Smoke Rise Elementary School 35.1% 34.4% 28.2% 67.9%
Tucker High School 38.6% 33.7% 31.3% 62% 54.8%
Brockett Elementary School 29.4% 33.1% 14.6% 67.5% 28.6%
Vanderlyn Elementary School This school 72.2% 31.5% 40.9% 82.4% 77.1%
Kelley Lake Elementary School 19.1% 31.4% 5.5%
Stephenson High School 31.9% 31.4% 32.6%
Peachtree Middle School 40.5% 31.1% 16% 76.3% 72.4%
Southwest DeKalb High School Magnet 30.7% 30.6% 36.3%
Dunwoody High School 43.2% 30.5% 22.8% 76.2% 63.3%

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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.