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Black student results in Jones County

Across 7 schools in Jones County, 29.8% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 0.2 points above the Georgia average for Black students.

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45.4%
All students
29.8%
Black
47.3%
Hispanic
51.2%
White

Average across the 7 schools in Jones 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 7 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Gray Station Middle School reports 33.6% of Black students meeting the standard. Mattie Wells Elementary School, in the same district, reports 26%. That is a 7.6-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Jones 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
Gray Station Middle School 52.1% 33.6% 68.3% 56.9%
Dames Ferry Elementary School 52.4% 32.9% 20% 57.5%
Gray Elementary School 48.5% 32.1% 56.4%
Jones County High School 40.9% 28.7% 64% 46.3%
Clifton Ridge Middle School 33.7% 27.7% 36.8% 37.8%
Turner Woods Elementary School 57.5% 27.3% 64.7%
Mattie Wells Elementary School 32.9% 26% 38.5%

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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