By County Interactive Per School Remedial Education Stats
This report is very telling to those who are familiar with the Metro Atlanta area and the distribution of its political and racial concentrations of power throughout the area.
Beyond the question of the quality of the entire student body this focuses specifically on the portion of those who go on to attend college and their need for remedial courses prior to their matriculation into the mainstream courses. In effect this is a question of the effectiveness of a high school in preparing their students for college.
This survey must also be framed in the context of the "Red State / Blue States" debates that go on. So frequently Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chasers join in with their bigoted White Liberal syndicates to argue that "Red States" are harming the interests of their poor and minority students. To make such an argument they are forced to stop their analysis at the STATE LEVEL. Indeed the average Southern state does not fare as well academically as compared to the various states in the Northeast.
I have argued that we need to do a ZIPCODE LEVEL analysis to disprove this stereotype. The AJC has provided me with the affirming data that I need to make my case.
In the metro Atlanta area Dekalb, Clayton, Fulton and the City of Atlanta are the Democratically controlled - "Progressive" strongholds. Fayette, Henry, Cobb and Northern Gwinnett counties are the more conservative areas. While indeed the schools with the more wealthy students tend to fare better - this wealth is not exclusive to any particular county. Fulton has the most wealthy individuals but it also has more lower income individuals as well. Fayette County has the least amount of economic divesity as its strategy to target single family homes makes it attractive to middle class and upper middle class individuals. Thus its high schools are disproportionately reprsented at the higher ranks.
If we were to accept the "Red States harm education" argument then this statistics would not be as distributed as they are. Ironically the schools that are sending more students to college requiring remedial education are contained in Progressive controlled counties with Progressives in firm control of the school policies.
It is rather ironic that in the run up to gain political power and control of these public institutions as a matter of expressing the people's will and for pride purposes - the bottom line deliverables from these institutions have not been met despite having these favorable people running these resources.
The popular claim about "resource constraints does not hold. The chart of per pupil spending for these various counties are quite similar.
Statewide, the remedial rate has climbed to 1 in 4 first-year students after dropping in the 1990s, said Chancellor Erroll Davis Jr. of the University System of Georgia. The cost to the system: $25 million a year.
Students such as Brandon Curry, 20, a graduate of Redan High in DeKalb County, said they were surprised to learn decent high school grades don’t always translate into college success.
“English was my strongest subject,” he said after a remedial reading class earlier this spring at Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston. “But when I came to college, I was like, ‘Whoa.’
“I’m on this level,” he said, motioning to about knee-level. “And I’m supposed to be up here,” he said, raising his hand above his chest.
In some cases, students wrestle with basic reading comprehension, said Karen Duncan, an assistant reading professor at Perimeter.
“It’s abysmal,” she said. “We’ve got students in there who may be on the fifth- or sixth-grade level.”
The newspaper analyzed the most recent data available on graduates from 12 metro Atlanta districts who attended public colleges. The AJC compared the percentage of schools’ college-bound graduates who took remedial classes, the number that lost their HOPE scholarship, and the state study suggesting some high schools could be inflating classroom grades.
The data showed:
> For 30 of 103 metro Atlanta high schools, more than 1 in 3 of their graduates took remedial classes as freshmen in the 2007-2008 school year. At seven of those schools, at least half did.
> At 44 metro high schools, half or more HOPE scholars who began college in 2002 and remained enrolled lost the grant within four years. At a dozen of those schools, 70 percent or more did.
> In one district, Atlanta, 86 percent of the more than 200 students who entered the state’s two-year colleges in the fall of 2007 needed remedial classes. Within that group, 29 of 37 HOPE scholars needed remedial help.
However clear the problem may be to college professors, it is not one most educators in local school systems are eager to talk about. And the question of who is responsible leads to more than one answer. The classroom teacher, the principal and the school district are all under pressure to tout student successes, not failures. State education and university system officials have a role, too, yet it can be far removed from individual classrooms.
………………………………….Percent….Precent
………………………………….F grade….F on
……………………Percent……..in econ….economic
District ..School……..remediation….class……EOCT
DeKalb ….Open Campus…………73….NA ……..NA
Atlanta….Crim ………………69….27 ……..86
DeKalb ….McNair …………….61….14 ……..56
DeKalb ….Cedar Grove…………60 ….2 ……..57
Atlanta….South Atlanta……….58 ….1 ……..66
Atlanta….Southside…………..57 ….6 ……..57
Atlanta….Washington …………52 ….0 ……..63
DeKalb ….Towers …………….48 ….6 ……..65
Clayton….Morrow …………….46 ….3 ……..61
Atlanta….Frederick Douglass ….45 ….9 ……..59
Atlanta….Therrell …………..45 ….3 ……..65
Fulton ….Banneker …………..45 ….3 ……..65
DeKalb ….Stone Mountain ……..44 ….2 ……..53
DeKalb ….Clarkston…………..43 ….3 ……..52
DeKalb ….Redan………………43 ….2 ……..50
DeKalb ….Cross Keys …………42 ….6 ……..44
Cobb ……Oakwood…………….42 ….5 ……..59
DeKalb ….Miller Grove ……….41….12 ……..49
DeKalb ….Martin Luther King ….40 ….6 ……..37
Clayton….North Clayton……….39 ….5 ……..75
DeKalb ….Avondale …………..39 ….6 ……..50
Clayton….Mundys Mill…………38 ….4 ……..42
DeKalb ….Lithonia …………..38 ….4 ……..42
Fulton ….Tri-Cities …………38 ….1 ……..46
DeKalb ….Tucker …………….38 ….0 ……..33
DeKalb ….Southwest DeKalb ……37 ….3 ……..32
Atlanta….Mays ………………37 ….3 ……..30
Fulton ….Creekside…………..35 ….5 ……..54
Atlanta….North Atlanta……….35….14 ……..49
DeKalb ….Columbia …………..34 ….3 ……..47
Clayton….Riverdale…………..33 ….4 ……..50
Gwinnett ..Phoenix…………….33….NA ……..NA
DeKalb ….Druid Hills…………31 ….4 ……..21
Cherokee ..Polaris Evening School 31….NA ……..NA
DeKalb ….Stephenson …………30….10 ……..31
Cobb ……Pebblebrook…………30….18 ……..56
Atlanta….Grady………………30 ….1 ……..36
Gwinnett ..Meadowcreek…………30 ….6 ……..40
Fulton ….Independence ….
…………Alternative School ..28….NA ……..NA
Clayton….Lovejoy…………….27 ….2 ……..59
Henry……Stockbridge…………27….NA ……..NA
Clayton….Mount Zion …………26 ….0 ……..49
Gwinnett ..Berkmar…………….24….11 ……..41
Decatur….Decatur…………….23 ….1 ……..14
Fulton ….Westlake …………..23 ….2 ……..22
Clayton….Forest Park…………23 ….5 ……..64
Forsyth….Forsyth Central……..23….NA ……..NA
Henry……Henry County ……….22….NA ……..NA
Gwinnett ..South Gwinnett ……..22 ….3 ……..44
Cobb ……South Cobb …………21 ….3 ……..35
Cobb ……North Cobb …………20 ….6 ……..30
Cobb ……Robert L. Osborne……20 ….9 ……..51
Fayette….Fayette County ……..19….NA ……..NA
Forsyth….North Forsyth……….19….NA ……..NA
DeKalb ….Dunwoody …………..19 ….1 ……..12
Henry……Dutchtown…………..18….NA ……..NA
Gwinnett ..Shiloh …………….18 ….2 ……..23
Gwinnett ..Mill Creek …………18 ….2 ……..26
Cherokee ..Cherokee …………..16….NA ……..NA
Henry……Eagle’s Landing……..16….NA ……..NA
Gwinnett ..Central Gwinnett ……15 ….5 ……..39
Gwinnett ..Parkview …………..15 ….1 ……..17
Fayette….Whitewater …………15….NA ……..NA
DeKalb ….DeKalb School….
…………..of the Arts ……..15 ….0……….4
Cobb ……McEachern…………..15 ….0 ……..67
Fayette….Sandy Creek…………15….NA ……..NA
Henry……Luella …………….15….NA ……..NA
Henry……Union Grove…………14….NA ……..NA
Gwinnett ..Duluth …………….14 ….0 ……..26
Clayton….Jonesboro…………..14 ….7 ……..51
Cherokee ..Woodstock…………..13….NA ……..NA
Cobb ……Campbell …………..12….12 ……..34
DeKalb ….Lakeside …………..12 ….1 ……..22
Gwinnett ..Grayson…………….11 ….0 ……..26
Forsyth….South Forsyth……….11….NA ……..NA
Gwinnett ..Dacula …………….11 ….6 ……..20
Gwinnett ..Peachtree Ridge……..11 ….2 ……..19
Cobb ……Kennesaw Mountain……10 ….3 ……..17
Gwinnett ..North Gwinnett ……..10 ….4 ……..13
Gwinnett ..Norcross …………..10 ….4 ……..27
Cobb ……Harrison …………..10 ….1 ……..13
Fulton ….Alpharetta…………..9 ….2 ……..10
Gwinnett ..Collins Hill…………9 ….2 ……..23
Cobb ……Kell………………..9….10 ……..34
Fulton ….Riverwood …………..9 ….2 ……..23
Cherokee ..Etowah………………8….NA ……..NA
Cobb ……Sprayberry Senior ……8 ….7 ……..21
Cherokee ..Sequoyah…………….8….NA ……..NA
Fulton ….Milton………………8 ….1……….7
Gwinnett ..Brookwood …………..8 ….1 ……..13
Fulton ….North Springs ……….8….12 ……..32
Fulton ….Roswell …………….8 ….2……….8
Fayette….Starr’s Mill…………8….NA ……..NA
Fulton ….Northview …………..7 ….1……….9
Fulton ….Centennial…………..7 ….5 ……..15
Fulton ….Chattahoochee ……….7 ….1……….8
Cobb ……Alan C. Pope…………7 ….2……….8
DeKalb ….Chamblee…………….6 ….2 ……..10
Cobb ……Wheeler …………….6 ….7 ……..13
Marietta ..Marietta…………….5 ….7 ……..31
Cobb ……George Walton….
…………..Comprehensive……..5….NA ……..NA
Cobb ……Lassiter…………….4 ….3……….6
Fayette….McIntosh…………….4….NA ……..NA
Source: Governor’s Office of Student Achievement
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