“..appears to be a dysfunctional HS given their very low academic standing”
I was born east of there in the 50’s and raised until I was a 9yo, many public school teachers were Catholic Nuns (with church dress in class) and knew a few from Catechism too. They did not mess around, we knew more by 3rd grade then many graduate high schoolers do today. For years us kid’s biggest fear was that one of the Nuns will call our your parents. And if you didn’t have a home phone a note would be pinned to your clothing to be signed by a parent or else.
LOL I didn’t know there was any skin color difference until my father was transferred to Michigan.
The differences can be striking.. I was an Air Force brat so I got to see the differences. My first school was Beavercreek Elementary in Dayton Ohio... at the time the only minority students were a set of Chinese twin girls. Total white-bread suburbia.. I was less than average, held back first grade because a goof off. Then I was at Armstrong Elementary, Hampton VA, about 50/50 ratio white to black. I was rated at a 12th grade reading level in 2nd grade and was relegated to a teachers helper role as I was just about the only other one that could read well. I never bought the idea that blacks are less intelligent than whites as a group... I’m more inclined to believe that apathy is the cause of the differences... they have a cultural propensity to not value formal education.