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Black student results in Valdosta City

Across 8 schools in Valdosta City, 18.1% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 11.5 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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22.4%
All students
18.1%
Black
29.1%
Hispanic
43.8%
White
64.1%
Asian

Average across the 8 schools in Valdosta City 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 8 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Sallas Mahone Elementary reports 23.3% of Black students meeting the standard. Newbern Middle School, in the same district, reports 13.5%. That is a 9.8-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Valdosta City

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
Sallas Mahone Elementary 33% 23.3% 41.9% 60.8% 71%
Valdosta High School 28.4% 23% 32.8% 61.6%
Valdosta Middle School 28.6% 21.2% 30.8% 63.4% 57.2%
J. L. Lomax Elementary School 18% 18.1% 17.1%
Pinevale Elementary School 17.6% 16.2% 25%
W.G. Nunn Elementary 16.5% 15.9% 33.3% 9.1%
S.L. Mason Elementary School 22% 13.9% 31.1% 47.5%
Newbern Middle School 14.9% 13.5% 20.7% 20.5%

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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