Memphis City vs. Shelby County

Okay I had my Idea in my head when I was going to do my paper for English. My topic was school assessment. So I researched locally about the issue and I came across the Tennessee state site where I looked up the average grades for all schools in Tennessee. It wasn’t a surprise but the comparison between Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools was not close. The ACT scores, TCAP writing, average grades, attendance, suspensions, and expulsions all were not good for Memphis. Example, Shelby County’s graduation rate was something around 94% and Memphis well guess somewhere around 82% that means about 2 of every 10 kids don’t graduate. I know it seems small but in the case of education it’s a big difference. Average ACT was 17 compared to 21 for Shelby County meaning that on average the County school graduate would get the hope scholarship and Memphis City… well tough luck. The suspensions were the stats that jumped off the paper out of 120,000 students at least 20,000 were suspended at some time. I never attended a City School so I don’t know but what is the difference (on a group level) because the individuals I have met that came from a city school seem intelligent to me ( but I do attend a college and It’s a good chance the one’s who helped the bad part of the stats are not here to tell me.)