Gwinnett County Public Schools

Gwinnett County is located in Georgia just outside of Atlanta and their public school system is one if the largest in the country.

I worked closely with the school system's research department to find new ways to identify where the schools had room for improvement in the education of the individual students.

The main focus was to utilize the large volumes of data that the school system has available on each student along with data science and statistics to develop an early-warning system for students who were at risk of not being college-ready when they graduate High School. I succeeded in creating machine learning models that allowed us to identify the at-risk students as early as the 8^th grade and one of the main indicators was found to be the student's achievements in 8^th grade algebra.

These warnings are early enough for the school and the teachers to intervene and formulate a plan and any remedial actions for the individual student to help make them college-ready when they graduate High School.