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Black student results in Richmond County

Across 48 schools in Richmond County, 16.5% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 13.1 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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19%
All students
16.5%
Black
21.4%
Hispanic
35.7%
White
71.2%
Asian

Average across the 48 schools in Richmond 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 48 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Davidson Fine Arts Magnet reports 81% of Black students meeting the standard. Butler High School, in the same district, reports 1.7%. That is a 79.3-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Richmond 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
Davidson Fine Arts Magnet Magnet 86.7% 81% 87.5% 92.8% 100%
Walker Traditional Elementary School Magnet 69.7% 64.2% 86.1% 85.5%
Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet School Magnet 63.3% 60.4% 75% 63.2%
Freedom Park K-8 School 49.6% 40.5% 53.2% 52.6% 85%
Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School Magnet 43.6% 40.4% 40% 66.7%
Lake Forest Hills Elementary School 35.3% 24.5% 23.1% 60.2%
Gracewood Elementary School 22.3% 22.8% 18.1% 24.6%
Belair Elementary School 25.8% 22.3% 28.6% 41.4%
Deer Chase Elementary School 20.7% 20.7% 15.6%
McBean Elementary School 30.4% 20.2% 22.7% 33.3%
Blythe Elementary School 30.9% 19.2% 23.4% 42.8%
Warren Road Elementary School Magnet 22.7% 18.5% 17.5% 40%
Jamestown Elementary School 17.7% 17.6%
Bayvale Elementary School 15.2% 16.4% 13.1%
Garrett Elementary School 20% 15.3% 36.3% 30.4%
Meadowbrook Elementary School 15% 14.7% 12.4%
Copeland Elementary School Magnet 15.3% 13.6% 30%
Dorothy Hains Elementary School Magnet 16.4% 13.6% 10% 39.2%
Diamond Lakes Elementary School 14.1% 13.4% 9% 26.6%
Academy of Richmond County High School Magnet 17.6% 13.4% 13.9% 43.9%
Lamar - Milledge Elementary School 15.3% 13.1%
Jenkins-White Elementary School 14.3% 12.8% 18.1%
Goshen Elementary School 21% 12.5% 31.8% 34.6%
Hephzibah Elementary School Magnet 13.9% 12.2% 14.3% 16.4%
Tobacco Road Elementary School 12.7% 12.1%
Belair Middle School 13.5% 12.1% 15.7% 32.6%
Monte Sano Elementary School 13.6% 10% 30.8% 33.4%
Sue Reynolds Elementary School 11.2% 9.9% 17.7%
Glenn Hills Elementary School 9.2% 9.9% 2.5%
Pine Hill Middle School 12.9% 9.7% 7.4% 24.6%
W.S. Hornsby Elementary School 8.9% 9.4%
Hephzibah Middle School 11.2% 9.4% 13.3% 18.4%
Tutt Middle School 10.8% 8.9% 14.3% 20.3% 28.6%
Cross Creek High School 11.1% 8.7% 17.3% 18.9%
Wilkinson Gardens Elementary School 9.9% 8.6% 11.5%
W.S. Hornsby Middle School 9.1% 8.6%
Laney High School Magnet 9.5% 8.5%
Wheeless Road Elementary School 8.1% 8.1% 4.7%
Richmond Hill Elementary School 8.9% 7.9% 12.5% 30.1%
Barton Chapel Elementary School 8.7% 7.4% 3%
Westside High School 9.2% 7.1% 15.8% 26.6%
Glenn Hills Middle School 7.2% 6.4% 11.8% 10.1%
Hephzibah High School 6.6% 5.6% 13.1% 12.3%
Murphey Middle School 6.4% 5.4% 8%
Glenn Hills High School 5.1% 5% 4.3%
Josey High School 4.6% 4.5% 4.6%
Richmond Hill Middle School 4.8% 4.3% 6.5% 4.2%
Butler High School 2.1% 1.7% 2.5% 9.1%

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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