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Black student results in Forsyth County

Across 40 schools in Forsyth County, 49% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 19.4 points above the Georgia average for Black students.

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64.6%
All students
49%
Black
43.6%
Hispanic
61.4%
White
83.9%
Asian

Average across the 40 schools in Forsyth 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 36 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Riverwatch Middle School reports 72.7% of Black students meeting the standard. Otwell Middle School, in the same district, reports 29.6%. That is a 43.1-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Forsyth 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
Riverwatch Middle School 84.8% 72.7% 65.8% 74.5% 91.8%
Sharon Elementary School 76.9% 70.9% 67.1% 71.1% 86.3%
South Forsyth High School 79% 68.8% 58.3% 73.4% 90%
South Forsyth Middle School 84.1% 68.6% 67.1% 74.2% 92.1%
Midway Elementary School 71.2% 68% 48.8% 60.5% 83%
New Hope Elementary School 73.6% 67.6% 51.9% 64.6% 83.5%
Settles Bridge Elementary School 77.8% 61.4% 59% 69.5% 84%
Lambert High School 81.8% 61.2% 66.7% 78.2% 88.8%
Denmark High School 70% 61% 46.2% 73.2% 86.8%
Matt Elementary School 63.1% 59% 44.7% 60% 78.6%
Piney Grove Middle School 80.5% 57.4% 53% 72.9% 90.2%
Kelly Mill Elementary 65.7% 56.8% 47.2% 61.6% 81.6%
Silver City Elementary School 53.7% 55.9% 42.5% 52.7% 72.9%
North Forsyth High School 56.7% 55.9% 45.3% 58.2% 77.4%
Coal Mountain Elementary School 53.9% 55.2% 34.4% 55.2% 81.5%
George W. Whitlow Elementary 64.5% 54.9% 34.3% 63.9% 83.3%
Vickery Creek Middle School 69.7% 53.8% 46.5% 62.1% 89.8%
Big Creek Elementary School 75.4% 51.6% 41.1% 71.9% 83.6%
Johns Creek Elementary 79.9% 46.5% 63.7% 73.4% 84.5%
Sawnee Elementary School 61.8% 46% 35.3% 57.3% 79.4%
Shiloh Point Elementary 71% 44.8% 42.4% 53.7% 81.4%
East Forsyth High School 45.9% 44.4% 28.2% 53.4%
Daves Creek Elementary School 87% 44.1% 53.6% 80% 90.8%
Hendricks Middle School 66.4% 43.5% 46% 60.1% 85.9%
Poole's Mill Elementary 56% 42.3% 31% 50.3% 74.3%
Lakeside Middle School 71.5% 42% 44.2% 58.6% 90.4%
West Forsyth High School 58.6% 41.3% 43.7% 57.5% 84.3%
Forsyth Central High School 47.8% 41% 28.9% 58.2% 76.7%
Brandywine Elementary School 59.4% 40.7% 30.6% 61.3% 83.6%
North Forsyth Middle School 49% 40.4% 37% 47% 78.7%
Vickery Creek Elementary School 69.6% 38.4% 48.3% 65.8% 84.3%
DeSana Middle School 65% 37.5% 23.5% 55.7% 87.9%
Chattahoochee Elementary School 46.9% 35% 32.9% 55.7%
Chestatee Elementary 45.6% 35% 31.3% 49.6%
Little Mill Middle School 39.3% 34.3% 26.3% 42.9% 73.1%
Haw Creek Elementary 71.1% 34.2% 55.8% 64.6% 86.2%
Mashburn Elementary School 66.7% 33.4% 38.4% 58.8% 83.8%
Liberty Middle School 53% 32.5% 34.5% 47.2% 79.8%
Cumming Elementary School 43.6% 31.7% 27.6% 58.9% 87%
Otwell Middle School 45% 29.6% 19.8% 49.2% 86.7%

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.

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