The Light Bearer

Black student results in Dougherty County

Across 21 schools in Dougherty County, 25.8% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 3.8 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

Search Georgia schools ›
27.1%
All students
25.8%
Black
33.1%
Hispanic
39%
White

Average across the 21 schools in Dougherty 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 21 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet reports 77.9% of Black students meeting the standard. South Georgia Regional Achievement Center, The Phoenix, in the same district, reports 0%. That is a 77.9-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Dougherty 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
Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet Magnet 79.4% 77.9% 90.8% 95.5%
Lincoln Elementary Magnet School Magnet 57.9% 56.7%
Lamar Reese School of the Arts 48.3% 48.6%
Lake Park Elementary School 44.6% 35.2% 62.8%
International Studies Elementary Charter School 33.3% 32.2% 34.6%
Sherwood Acres Elementary School 35.2% 31.8% 36.5% 46.6%
Westover High School 31.2% 29.3% 38.4% 41.7%
Robert H Harvey Elementary School 26.5% 25.5%
Live Oak Elementary School 24.5% 22.6% 50.1% 33.3%
Monroe High School 20.5% 20% 35% 40%
Turner Elementary School 20.5% 19.8% 20%
West Town Elementary School 19.2% 19.1%
Merry Acres Middle School 18.9% 19% 25% 7.7%
Dougherty Comprehensive High School 18.5% 18.2% 14.5%
Albany Middle School 19% 17.9% 21.1% 37.5%
Alice Coachman Elementary School 17.8% 16.9%
Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School 17.1% 16.4%
Radium Springs Elementary School 14.9% 13.8% 23.2% 17.8%
Northside Elementary School 13.1% 12% 16.7%
Radium Springs Middle School 8.6% 8.1% 7.6% 29.1%
South Georgia Regional Achievement Center, The Phoenix 0% 0%

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.

Other Georgia districts

Gwinnett County DeKalb County Cobb County Fulton County Atlanta Public Schools Clayton County Savannah-Chatham County Henry County Muscogee County Richmond County Forsyth County Douglas County