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Black student results in Jefferson City

Across 13 schools in Jefferson City, 27.1% of Black students meet proficient or advanced. That is 5 points above the Missouri average for Black students.

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45.9%
All students
27.1%
Black
35.1%
Hispanic
53.5%
White
86.8%
Asian

Average across the 13 schools in Jefferson 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 9 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Capital City High School reports 41.5% of Black students meeting the standard. Moreau Heights Elementary, in the same district, reports 15.2%. That is a 26.3-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Jefferson City

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient or advanced. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Capital City High School 50.4% 41.5% 30.5% 53.4%
Clarence Lawson Elementary 61.6% 40.1% 63.6%
Pioneer Trail Elementary 46.7% 37% 23.7% 51.7%
Thomas Jefferson Middle School 51.6% 35.9% 37.3% 58.4% 86.8%
Belair Elementary 53% 29.2% 61.8%
South Elementary 44.4% 27.5% 51.1%
Jefferson City High School 52.7% 26.7% 46.1% 61%
Thorpe J. Gordon Elementary 48.1% 25.4% 68.1%
East Elementary 20.9% 20.6% 23.9%
Lewis And Clark Middle School 40.7% 20.3% 38% 49.1%
West Elementary 51% 18.3% 61.8%
Moreau Heights Elementary 35.1% 15.2% 49.6%
Cedar Hill Elementary 40.7% 15% 42.5%

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. DESE suppresses results for groups with too few students tested. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 700 of Missouri's schools have reportable data. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Missouri figures should not be compared against another state's.

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