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Black student results in Jackson County

Across 10 schools in Jackson County, 35% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 5.4 points above the Georgia average for Black students.

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47.5%
All students
35%
Black
37.6%
Hispanic
52.9%
White
59.1%
Asian

Average across the 10 schools in Jackson 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 10 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Gum Springs Elementary School reports 54.2% of Black students meeting the standard. South Jackson Elementary School, in the same district, reports 12.5%. That is a 41.7-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Jackson 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
Gum Springs Elementary School 60.8% 54.2% 47% 63% 65.5%
West Jackson Elementary School 53.9% 42.9% 49.1% 61.4% 55.2%
Legacy Knoll Middle School 53.4% 42% 47.2% 57.6% 65.9%
North Jackson Elementary School 45% 40.7% 32.9% 52.2%
East Jackson Comprehensive High School 38.6% 37.5% 33.1% 41.6%
West Jackson Middle School 51.5% 36.5% 40.6% 56.1% 70%
Jackson County High School 42.2% 32.4% 31.5% 48.9% 44.6%
Heroes Elementary School 46.9% 27.5% 37.6% 54% 53.2%
East Jackson Middle School 41.5% 23.6% 28.1% 48.1%
South Jackson Elementary School 40.8% 12.5% 28.9% 45.8%

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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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