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Black student results in Wayne County

Across 7 schools in Wayne County, 20.3% of Black students meet proficient or distinguished. That is 9.3 points below the Georgia average for Black students.

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34.6%
All students
20.3%
Black
28.5%
Hispanic
42.1%
White
60%
Asian

Average across the 7 schools in Wayne 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 6 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Bacon Elementary School reports 25.5% of Black students meeting the standard. Martha Puckett Middle School, in the same district, reports 18.7%. That is a 6.8-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Wayne 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
Bacon Elementary School 34.1% 25.5% 31.2% 40.5%
Wayne County High School 43.5% 25.5% 36.8% 52.8%
Jesup Elementary School 34% 23% 26.9% 38.9%
Arthur Williams Middle School 33.6% 21.4% 31.4% 38.5% 60%
Martha Rawls Smith Elementary School 29% 20% 16.7% 43.9%
Martha Puckett Middle School 34.7% 18.7% 28% 41.8%
Screven Elementary School 33.2% 8.3% 38%

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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