Atlanta Public Schools is a school district

School district

School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 based in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. APS is run by the Atlanta Board of Education with interim superintendent Erroll Davis

Erroll Davis

Erroll B. Davis Jr. is currently the Interim Superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools school district in Atlanta, Georgia. Previously, Davis served as the Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, where he was responsible for the state’s 35 public colleges and universities...

. The system has an active enrollment of 54,956 students, attending a total of 100 schools: 59 elementary schools (three of which operate on a year-round calendar), 16 middle schools, 10 high schools, and 7 charter schools. The school system also supports two alternative schools for middle and/or high school students, two community schools, and an adult learning center. The school system owns and operates radio station WABE-FM 90.1 (the National Public Radio affiliate) and Public Broadcasting Service

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 (PBS) Public television station WPBA 30.

Cheating scandal

During the 11-year tenure of former superintendent Beverly Hall, the APS experienced unusually high gains in standardized test scores, such as the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test

Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests

The Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests are a set of tests administered at public schools in the state of Georgia that are designed to test the knowledge of first through eighth graders in reading, English/language arts , and mathematics, and third through eighth graders additionally in science...

. In 2009, Hall won the National Superintendent of the Year Award. Around this time, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution began investigating the score increases and suggested evidence of cheating. A state report found a large number of erased answers in an analysis of the 2009 test scores. Tests were administered under much higher scrutiny in 2010, and the scores dropped dramatically. The state of Georgia launched a major investigation as cheating concerns intensified. The investigation's report, published in July 2011, found evidence of a widespread cheating scandal. At least 178 teachers and principals at 44 APS schools were alleged to have corrected students' tests to increase scores, in some cases holding "cheating parties" to revise large quantities of tests. Hall, who had retired in June 2011, expressed regret but denied any prior knowledge of, or participation in, the cheating. The new superintentent, Erroll Davis

Erroll Davis

Erroll B. Davis Jr. is currently the Interim Superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools school district in Atlanta, Georgia. Previously, Davis served as the Chancellor of the University System of Georgia, where he was responsible for the state’s 35 public colleges and universities...

, demanded the resignation of the 178 APS employees or else they would be fired. The revelation of the scandal left many Atlantans feeling outraged and betrayed, with Mayor Kasim Reed

Kasim Reed

Mohammed Kasim Reed, known as Kasim Reed, is a Democratic politician and the 59th Mayor of Atlanta, who previously represented the 35th District of the Georgia State Senate. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1998 to 2002...

 calling it "a dark day for the Atlanta public school system." The scandal also attracted national media coverage.

Comprehensive School Reform

All Atlanta public schools have selected one of the following twelve Comprehensive School Reform

Comprehensive School Reform

The Comprehensive School Reform program is administered by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education....

 models:

• America's Choice
  America's Choice
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• Artful Learning
• Co-nect
• Core Knowledge
  Core Knowledge Foundation
  The Core Knowledge Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation founded in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. The Foundation is dedicated to excellence and fairness in early education.-Ideals of Core Knowledge:...
  
  
• Direct Instruction
  Direct instruction
  Direct Instruction is an instructional method that is focused on systematic curriculum design and skillful implementation of a prescribed behavioral script....
  
  
• High Schools That Work
• International Baccalaureate
• Making Middle Grades Work
• Modern Red School House
• Project GRAD
• Success for All: Roots and Wings
  Success for All
  Success for All refers to standards-based Comprehensive School Reform curricula for early childhood through middle school, produced by the nonprofit organization Success for All Foundation ....
  
  
• Talent Development

School Board members

The School Board consists of:

• District 1 - Brenda Muhammad (Chair)
• District 2 - Khaatim Sherrer El
• District 3 - Cecily Harsch-Kinnane (Vice Chair)
• District 4 - Nancy Meister
• District 5 - LaChandra Butler-Burks
• District 6 - Yolanda Johnson
• Seat 7 - Eric Wilson
• Seat 8 - Mark Riley
• Seat 9 - Emmett Johnson

Schools

High schools

• The New Schools at Carver
  Carver High School (Atlanta, Georgia)
  The New Schools at Carver formerly the George Washington Carver Comprehensive High School, is a high school in Atlanta, Georgia and part of Atlanta Public Schools. Carver includes many schools in one...
  
  
  • Early College
  • School of the Arts
  • School of Health Sciences & Research
  • School of Technology
• Frederick Douglass High School
• Henry W. Grady High School
  Henry W. Grady High School
  Henry W. Grady High School is located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in Midtown. It serves as the Communication Magnet school for the Atlanta Public Schools...
  
  
• Benjamin E. Mays High School
• North Atlanta High School
  North Atlanta High School
  North Atlanta High School is a high school of approximately 1,100 students in Buckhead, an upscale area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The school is a part of Atlanta Public Schools....
  
  
• South Atlanta High School
  South Atlanta High School
  South Atlanta High School is a public high school located in the southeast corner of Atlanta, Georgia. It is located on the site of former George High School, and it formed as the result of the merger of George and nearby Fulton High School. It has been transformed into a campus of four small...
  
  
• Maynard H. Jackson High School
• Daniel McLaughlin Therrell High School
  Therrell High School
  Daniel McLaughlin Therrell High School is a public high school located near I-285 and Greenbriar Mall in southwest Atlanta, Georgia.Three schools operate at the Therrell campus:*D. M. Therrell School of Health Science and Research*D. M...
  
  
• Booker T. Washington High School
  Washington High School (Atlanta)
  Booker T. Washington High School Educational Complex, named for the famous educator, opened in September 1924 under the auspices of the Atlanta Board of Education, with the late Charles Lincoln Harper as principal. As the first public high school for African-Americans in the state of Georgia and...
  
  

Middle schools

• Joseph Emerson Brown Middle School
• Ralph Johnson Bunche Middle School
• Sammye E. Coan Middle School
• Charles Lincoln Harper-Samuel Howard Archer Middle School
• Samuel Martin Inman Middle School
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Middle School
• Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Urban Learning Center
• Crawford Williamson Long Middle School
• Walter Leonard Parks Middle School
• Luther Judson Price Middle School
• Willis Sutton Middle School
• Sylvan Hills Middle School
• Jean Childs Young Middle School

Elementary schools

• Adamsville Elementary School
• Beecher Hills Elementary School
• Benteen Elementary School
• Bethune Elementary School
• Blalock Elementary School
• Bolton Academy
• Boyd Elementary School
• Brandon Elementary School
  Morris Brandon Elementary School
  Morris Brandon Elementary School is a public elementary school located in the Buckhead community in northwest Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1947 as part of the Fulton County school district, it is has been a part of the Atlanta Public Schools since the annexation of Buckhead in 1952...
  
  
• Burgess/Peterson Elementary School
• Capitol View Elementary School
• Cascade Elementary School
• Centennial Place Elementary School
• Cleveland Avenue Elementary School
• Connally Elementary School
• Continental Colony Elementary School
• Cook Elementary School
• Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy
• Deerwood Academy
• Dobbs Elementary School
• Dunbar Elementary School
• East Lake Elementary School
• Fain Elementary School
• Fickett Elementary School
• Finch Elementary School
• Garden Hills Elementary School
  Garden Hills Elementary School
  Built in 1938, Garden Hills Elementary School is on the National Register of Historic Places. The brick school building is nestled among the older homes and stately trees of Atlanta’s historic Garden Hills neighborhood. It is a beautiful example of the work of famed Atlanta architect Philip...
  
  
• Gideons Elementary School
• Grove Park Elementary School
• Heritage Academy
• Herndon Elementary School
• C.W. Hill Elementary School
• Hope Elementary School
• Humphries Elementary School
• Hutchinson Elementary School
• Jackson Elementary School
• Jones Elementary School
• Kimberly Elementary School
• Mary Lin Elementary School
• Miles Elementary School
• Morningside Elementary School
• Oglethorpe Elementary School
• Parkside Elementary School
• Perkerson Elementary School
• Peterson Elementary School
• Peyton Forest Elementary School
• Rivers Elementary School
• Scott Elementary School
• Slater Elementary School
• Smith Elementary School
• Springdale Park Elementary School
• D.H. Stanton Elementary School
• F.L. Stanton Elementary School
• Thomasville Heights Elementary School
• Toomer Elementary School
• Towns Elementary School
• Usher Elementary School
• Venetian Hills Elementary School
• Waters Elementary School
• West Manor Elementary School
• White Elementary School
• Whitefoord Elementary School
• Williams Elementary School
• Woodson Elementary School

Non-traditional schools

• APS/Community Education Partnership (CEP) School
• Alonzo A. Crim Open Campus High School 
• West End Academy

Single gender academies

• The B.E.S.T. Academy at Benjamin S. Carson (Business, Engineering, Science, and Technology)
• The Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy
  Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy
  The Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy was opened in Atlanta, Georgia in August of 2007. For a short time the academy was simply referred to as "the girls' single gender academy," but was later named by its first principal, Melody Morgan, in honor of the life and legacy of Coretta...
  
  

Charter schools

• Atlanta Charter Middle School
  Atlanta Charter Middle School
  Atlanta Charter Middle School is the city's youngest operating charter school. Located in the Ormewood Park community in southeast Atlanta, It provides an alternative to the surrounding middle schools, and it boasts the highest composite CRCT scores for any middle school in APS...
  
  
• Charles R. Drew Charter School
• KIPP West Atlanta Young Scholars Academy
• Neighborhood Charter School
  Neighborhood Charter School
  Neighborhood Charter School is an elementary charter school in southeast Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is located in the Grant Park neighborhood near Zoo Atlanta....
  
  
• Tech High School
• University Community Academy, an Atlanta Charter School, Inc.
• Imagine Wesley International Academy

High schools

• North Fulton High School
  North Fulton High School
  Johns Creek High School is a public secondary school in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States,serving grades 9-12. The school is a part of the Fulton County School System. The school, a state-of-the-art facility, was established in the fall of 2009 and has an enrollment around 1,840. The school's...
  
   1920-1991
• Northside High School
  North Atlanta High School
  North Atlanta High School is a high school of approximately 1,100 students in Buckhead, an upscale area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The school is a part of Atlanta Public Schools....
  
  1950-1991
• Henry McNeal Turner High School 1947-1989
• David T. Howard High School 1945 - 1976
• Charles Lincoln Harper High School 1963-1995
• Daniel O'Keefe High School 1947-1973
• Hoke Smith High School 1947-1985
• Franklin D. Roosevelt High School 1947-1985
• Harper-Archer High School 1995-2002
• Samuel Howard Archer High School 1950-1995
• Southwest High School 1950-1981
• Joseph Emerson Brown High School 1947-1992
• Luther Judson Price High School 1954-1987
• Boys High School 1872-1947
• Girls High School 1872-1947
• Tech High School 1909-1947
• West Fulton High School 1947-1992
• Fulton High School 1917-1990
• Walter F. George High School 1949-1994
• William F. Dykes High School 1959-1973
• Bass High School 1948-1987
• Commercial High School 1888-1947
• Sylvan Hills High School 1949-1987
• East Atlanta High School 1959-1988

Middle schools

• Austin T. Walden Middle School
• Marshall Middle School
• Henry McNeal Turner Middle School 1989-2000
• Daniel O'keefe Middle School 1973-1983
• West Fulton Middle School 1992-2004

Elementary schools

• Adair Park Elementary School
• Anderson Park Elementary School
• Arkwright Elementary School
• Ben Hill Elementary School
• Blair Village Elementary School
• Burgess Elementary School
• John Carey Elementary School
• Center Hill Elementary School
• Chatthoochee Elementary School
• Cleveland Ave. Elementary School
• Collier Heights Elementary School
• D.F. McClatchey Elementary School
• Emma Clarissa Clement Elementary School
• English Avenue Elementary School
• Fountain Elementary School
• Goldsmith Elementary School
• Thomas Jefferson Guice Elementary School
• Joel Chandler Harris Elementary School
• Harwell Elementary School
• Laura Haygood Elementary School
• Home Park Elementary School
• Caroline F. Harper Elementary School
• Evan P.Howell Elementary School
• Minnie S.Howell Elementary School
• John F. Faith Elementary was renamed C.D. Hubert 1963
• C.D.Hubert Elementary School
• EP Johnson Elementary School
• Lakewood Elementary School
• Margeret Mitchell Elementary School
• Moreland Ave. Elementary School
• Mount Vernon Elementary School
• North Ave. Elementary School
• Oglethorpe Elementary School
• Riverside Elementary School
• Slayton Elementary School
• Spring Street Elementary School
• Sylvan Hills Elementary School
• Anne E.West Elementary School
• John P. Whittaker Elementary School
• Fowler St. Elementary School
• Rockdale Elementary School
• Luckie Street Elementary School

External links

* Atlanta Public Schools

• Atlanta Public Schools zoning locator
• U.S. Department of Education: Comprehensive School Reform Program