Today the Georgia Department of Education recognized 45 schools in the metro Atlanta area when it named 79 of the state’s highest performing schools with a high population of low-income students. It also highlighted an additional 156 that have made the biggest academic strides with students who are often associated with troubled and unstable homes.
On the Georgia Department of Education’s website State School Superintendent John Barge commended the achievments of the schools and the students.
“These schools are shining examples of what we can achieve in public education in Georgia,” Barge said. “I want to take what’s working at our Reward Schools and replicate that in every school in the state. These are the schools making education work for all Georgians.”
The high-performing and high-progress schools, named “reward schools” under the state’s new accountability system, also managed to make significant progress in closing the achievement gaps between white students and students of color and to increase graduation rates.
The list includes 45 schools from the Atlanta metro area in grades K-12 in districts from Atlanta Public Schools to Fayette and Forsyth County. The list of 45 metro area schools is below.
HIGHEST PERFORMING:
CHEROKEE COUNTY:
Woodstock Elementary
Boston Elementary
DEKALB COUNTY
DeKalb Early College Academy
FAYETTE COUNTY
Inman Elementary
Oak Grove Elementary
Fayetteville Intermediate School
FORSYTH COUNTY
Cumming Elementary
Otwell Middle
Little Mill Middle
FULTON COUNTY
KIPP South Fulton Academy
River Eves Elementary
GWINNETT COUNTY
Knight Elementary
Ivy Preparatory
MARIETTA CITY
West Side Elementary
ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Carver Early College High School
Inman Middle School
HIGH PROGRESS
CLAYTON COUNTY
Lovejoy High
Riverdale High
Forest Park High
Jonesboro High
Lee Street Elementary
North Clayton High
COBB COUNTY
Lindley Middle
Austell Intermediate
Sky View Elementary
Osborne High
Fair Oaks Elementary
DEKALB COUNTY
Cedar Grove High
Mary McLeod Bethune Middle
Cross Keys High
FULTON COUNTY
Lake Forest Elementary
GWINNETT COUNTY
Benefield Elementary
Minor Elementary
Partee Elementary
Kanoheda Elementary
Margaret Winn Holt Elementary
Bethesda Elementary
Lawrenceville Elementary
HENRY COUNTY
Stockbridge Elementary
ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Charles R. Drew Charter
South Atlanta Law and Social Justice
The B.E.S.T. Academy at Benjamin S. Carson
Booker T. Washington High
DECATUR CITY
Decatur High School
MARIETTA CITY
Sawyer Road Elementary
About Post Author
