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Black student results in Walker County

Across 8 schools in Walker County, 17.5% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 12.1 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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31.9%
All students
17.5%
Black
28.6%
Hispanic
33.2%
White

Average across the 8 schools in Walker 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, LaFayette High School reports 30.8% of Black students meeting the standard. Rossville Elementary School, in the same district, reports 13%. That is a 17.8-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Walker 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
LaFayette High School 43% 30.8% 41.6% 44.1%
Stone Creek Elementary School 25.6% 21.1% 10.5% 26.9%
LaFayette Middle School 32.9% 16.6% 40.7% 32.7%
Ridgeland High School 28.8% 16.2% 18.9% 31%
Rossville Middle School 26.8% 15.5% 26.3% 29.3%
Chattanooga Valley Middle School 40.7% 14.3% 45% 41.7%
Rossville Elementary School 18.3% 13% 11.4% 20%
Saddle Ridge Elementary and Middle School 39% 12.5% 34.4% 39.8%

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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