
That year, 53% of the students in Georgia were "economically disadvantaged."
How is it that economically disadvantaged students are less intelligent than those with more money? What happens in the lives of the economically advantaged that enables them to pass at higher rates?
Interestingly, 39 schools appear to have economically disadvantaged students who outperform non economically disadvantaged. On further inspection, we see that in 17 of these schools all students passed the Math 1 EOCT (certainly worth celebrating!). Of the remaining 22 schools, the two groups in 19 of these schools are within 10 percentage points of each other. Of the remaining three schools, the number of economically disadvantaged students is over 100 while the number of non economically disadvantaged students is 20 or less.
Overwhelmingly, economically disadvantaged students appear to also be educationally disadvantaged.
Data were downloaded from:
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=102&StateId=ALL&T=1&FY=2010
The specific file downloaded was "EOCT Mathematics 1.xls" on 1/2/2011. According to the website, the file was last updated on 11/18/2010.