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Black student results in Effingham County

Across 13 schools in Effingham County, 39.7% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 10.1 points above the Georgia average for Black students.

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56.4%
All students
39.7%
Black
51.9%
Hispanic
61.6%
White
77.1%
Asian

Average across the 13 schools in Effingham 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 13 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, South Effingham Elementary School reports 54.5% of Black students meeting the standard. Effingham County High School, in the same district, reports 31.7%. That is a 22.8-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Effingham 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
South Effingham Elementary School 68.2% 54.5% 57.7% 73.5% 74%
South Effingham Middle School 61.1% 47.5% 57.9% 63.5% 70.3%
Marlow Elementary School 62.8% 47.4% 56.8% 65.7%
Springfield Elementary School 60.3% 45.6% 56% 67.1%
Blandford Elementary School 58.7% 41.5% 51.6% 66.1% 79.4%
Rincon Elementary School 59.1% 39.9% 54.1% 68.2% 80.8%
Ebenezer Elementary School 58.7% 38.6% 60.7% 61.5%
Sand Hill Elementary School 57.4% 38.5% 41.4% 60.1%
Ebenezer Middle School 53.2% 34.3% 47.3% 60.5% 74.9%
Guyton Elementary School 46.4% 33.1% 44.3% 52%
Effingham County Middle School 46.8% 32.3% 49.1% 50.7%
South Effingham High School 53.1% 31.8% 48.9% 59.8% 83.3%
Effingham County High School 47.2% 31.7% 49.3% 52.7%

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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.

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