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Black student results in Savannah-Chatham County

Across 56 schools in Savannah-Chatham County, 24.9% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 4.7 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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31.6%
All students
24.9%
Black
32.3%
Hispanic
47.9%
White
53.7%
Asian

Average across the 56 schools in Savannah-Chatham 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 53 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Savannah Arts Academy reports 77.4% of Black students meeting the standard. Myers Middle School, in the same district, reports 6.6%. That is a 70.8-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Savannah-Chatham 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
Savannah Classical Academy Charter High School Charter 70.5% 86.4%
Savannah Arts Academy Magnet 83.6% 77.4% 80.2% 87% 91.2%
Savannah Classical Academy Charter School Charter 74.6% 68% 72.6% 79.6%
Savannah Early College High School Magnet 67.9% 66.3%
Woodville-Tompkins Technical and Career High School Magnet 64.9% 59.6% 64.7% 83%
Esther F. Garrison School for the Arts Magnet 64.3% 48.5% 71.4% 79.1% 88%
Marshpoint Elementary School Magnet 61.6% 40.8% 57.5% 69.4%
The STEM Academy at Bartlett Magnet 54.9% 39.9% 51.1% 78.6% 62.8%
May Howard Elementary School 63.9% 35% 50% 66.6%
Garden City Elementary School 35% 34.7% 29.8% 76.5%
New Hampstead High School 39.8% 34.7% 33.6% 61%
Heard Elementary School Magnet 43.9% 33.4% 33.3% 75.5%
Georgetown School 44.4% 32.9% 64.1% 59.8%
Jacob G. Smith Elementary School Magnet 50% 32.7% 55.9% 69.2%
Hodge Elementary School Magnet 33.9% 29.6%
Coastal Middle School Magnet 46.4% 27.3% 52.6% 53% 61.9%
Rice Creek School 28.7% 26.6% 26% 41.5% 37.6%
West Chatham Elementary School 31% 25.5% 36.6% 44.8% 45.8%
Shuman Elementary School 22.8% 25% 16.1%
Johnson High School Magnet 27.3% 24.8% 41.4%
New Hampstead K-8 School 24% 24.2% 15% 42.9% 57.1%
Godley Station School 33.7% 24.1% 28.7% 46.4% 70%
Gould Elementary School 28.3% 23.9% 25% 34.7%
Beach High School Magnet 25.4% 23.9% 32.2%
Windsor Forest Elementary School 28.8% 23% 31.3% 41.8% 35.3%
Hesse School 35.3% 22.2% 22.9% 53.7% 68.7%
Southwest Elementary School 25.3% 22% 17.3% 47.4% 27.8%
Pooler Elementary School 27.4% 21.8% 16.2% 47.1%
Bloomingdale Elementary School 34.7% 21.2% 34.7% 41%
Islands High School Magnet 37.7% 20.9% 16.1% 44.9%
Butler Elementary School 19.7% 19.6% 16.1%
Otis J Brock III Elementary School 20.4% 18.9% 16.9% 35.8%
Gadsden Elementary School 18.4% 17.8%
Pulaski Elementary School 24.1% 17.6% 24% 50.9% 37.5%
Tybee Island Maritime Academy School Charter 58% 16.7% 78.1% 60.6%
Windsor Forest High School Magnet 20.1% 16.5% 20.2% 32.5%
Andrea B Williams Elementary School 17.1% 15.7% 19.2%
Jenkins High School Magnet 23.6% 15% 22.8% 49.4% 66.2%
West Chatham Middle School 17.7% 14.7% 12.2% 31.6% 43.2%
Ellis Elementary School Magnet 37.5% 14% 37.5% 52.9%
Susie King Taylor Community School Charter 19.3% 13.9% 50%
Haven Elementary School 13% 13.1%
White Bluff Elementary School 15.6% 12.6% 19.2% 25%
Groves High School Magnet 14.2% 12.3% 13.1% 30.2%
Oglethorpe Charter School Charter 15.3% 12.1% 35.3% 46.8%
Isle of Hope School 17.5% 11.1% 28.6% 29.8%
Savannah-Chatham E-Learning Academy 19.3% 10.8% 45% 30.2%
School of Humanities at Juliette Gordon Low 14.3% 10.4% 20.4% 25%
DeRenne Middle School Magnet 9.4% 9.2% 11.9%
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School Charter 15.4% 9.1% 20.4% 22.2%
Mercer Middle School 12.3% 9.1% 10.2% 18.6%
Southwest Middle School Magnet 9.3% 7.4% 7.9% 21.8% 13.1%
The School of Liberal Studies at Savannah High Magnet 8.9% 7.2%
Hubert Middle School Magnet 7.3% 7% 4.2% 37.5%
Myers Middle School 8.2% 6.6% 10.2% 29.7%
UHS of Savannah Coastal Harbor Treatment Center 1.7% 0% 4.4%

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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