School Poverty: An Exploration of Geography and Socioeconomic Status in Georgia
Location
Influences on K-12 Student Achievement (Session 3 Breakouts)
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
This descriptive analysis explores how geography and socioeconomic status interact in public schools in the State of Georgia. The author of this presentation, in collaboration with supervising professors, compared geographic locale codes to the number of students eligible for free or reduced lunch in Georgia using data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Preliminary findings indicate that there are more students enrolled in suburban Georgia schools than any other category. Moreover, suburban schools have the lowest proportion of students who are eligible for free or reduced lunch. This presentation will also assess proportions of school poverty in rural and urban Georgia.
Keywords
geography, inequality, population, education
Professional Bio
My name is Analice Jones and I am a Junior at UWG with a major in Criminology. I aspire to be either a civil rights attorney with a focus in education law or a juvenile justice lawyer. I am conducting this research because there is an extreme disparity between funding for AP classes and other enriching entities in rural/ low income schools. I want to get to the root of this problem and be able to get past the economic, social, and political factors of this occurrence.
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Recommended Citation
Jones, Analice F., "School Poverty: An Exploration of Geography and Socioeconomic Status in Georgia" (2020). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 37.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2020/2020/37
School Poverty: An Exploration of Geography and Socioeconomic Status in Georgia
Influences on K-12 Student Achievement (Session 3 Breakouts)
This descriptive analysis explores how geography and socioeconomic status interact in public schools in the State of Georgia. The author of this presentation, in collaboration with supervising professors, compared geographic locale codes to the number of students eligible for free or reduced lunch in Georgia using data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Preliminary findings indicate that there are more students enrolled in suburban Georgia schools than any other category. Moreover, suburban schools have the lowest proportion of students who are eligible for free or reduced lunch. This presentation will also assess proportions of school poverty in rural and urban Georgia.
