Buckhead Elementary Schools Ranked in Recent Survey

Jackson Elementary scored highest in the survey for Buckhead, while Garden Hills scored the lowest.

As parents make decisions about the schools their children attend, having access to useful performance data is informative.  Jarod Apperson, a concerned resident of Atlanta and someone interested in public education is seeking to aleviate a lack of accessible information.  He set out to compile a ranking of academic performance in Metro Atlanta´s public schools and recently posted his findings online. "I have ranked each of Metro Atlanta´s public elementaryschools considering both the school´s overall performance (40%) and it´s performance relative to peer schools (60%)," Apperson said.   Peer schools are schools whose students have a similar level of needs.   "In my analysis, economic disadvantage, English language learners, ethnicity, …

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