ARC Research and Analytics

Is Atlanta Area Student Learning more Absent than we'd Like?

Still Missing: The Students Who Need School Most In a previous blog post examining 3rd grade English Language Arts (ELA) scores, we noted that a rise in chronic absenteeism has likely obstructed post-pandemic recovery of student performance. The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) initiated a campaign to address such absenteeism in January of....

Diverging Demographic Distributions: Old(er) vs. Young(er)

Georgia's Generational Shift: Where Seniors Surpass Youth We're getting older as a nation. In fact, the median age in the United States has increased steadily from 30.0 in 1980 to 39.1 in 2024. The shift is striking: a recent Census press release reported that seniors outnumber children in eleven states-- up from just three in 2020-- and nearly half

Asian-Americans: Trend Tracking the Numbers

Tracking Change Over Time in Atlanta: Asian Population(s) 2000-2023 To close out Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, we share some "hard numbers" below, in five tables, that trace the startlingly rapid growth (over the last near quarter-century), of the foreign-born Asian population on the whole as well as for those born in key countries of origin...