Georgia schools on state's severe list

By Matt Dempsey

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Georgia Department of Education released official results from their investigation into cheating on the state 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT).

Public school students in grades 1-8 are required to take the CRCT in reading, English and math. Students in grades 3-8 also take science and social studies exams.

The investigation scanned all test takers’ answer documents to detect erasures, flagging classrooms with wrong-to-right changes that fell above the state average.

The following schools fell on the state’s severe list, meaning 25% or more of the school’s classrooms were flagged with wrong-to-right changes that fell well above the state average.

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Atlanta Public Schools

• Adamsville Elementary, 27.80%
• Beecher Hills, 42.60%
• Benjamin S Carson (Best Academy), 30.00%
• Benteen Elementary, 43.10%
• Blalock Elementary, 66.70%
• Boyd Elementary, 56.10%
• C W Hill Elementary, 29.40%
• Capitol View, 70.80%
• Cascade Elementary, 28.80%
• Cleveland Elementary, 26.10%
• Coan Middle S, 31.40%
• Connally Elementary, 70.50%
• Cook Elementary, 40.70%
• Crim High School, 33.30%
• D H Stanton Elementary, 58.30%
• Deerwood Academy, 47.80%
• Dobbs Elementary, 33.30%
• Dunbar Elementary, 68.60%
• East Lake Elementary, 42.00%
• F L Stanton, 83.30%
• Fain Elementary, 39.70%
• Fickett Elementary, 51.40%
• Finch Elementary, 48.00%
• Gideons Elementary, 88.40%
• Heritage Academy, 28.20%
• Humphries Elementary, 46.70%
• Hutchinson Elementary, 47.00%
• Kennedy Middle, 53.20%
• Parks Middle, 89.50%
• Perkerson Elementary, 66.70%
• Peyton Forest, 86.10%
• Scott Elementary, 68.00%
• Slater Elementary, 30.30%
• Thomasville Heights, 39.10%
• Towns Elementary, 63.60%
• Turner Middle, 54.00%
• University Community School, 25.00%
• Usher Elementary, 78.40%
• Venetian Hill, 75.40%
• West Manor Elementary, 54.90%
• White Elementary, 47.40%
• Whitefoord Elementary, 59.30%
• Woodson Elementary, 63.30%

Bibb County

• Brookdale Elementary, 27.10%
• Burke Elementary, 40.50%

Carroll County

• Whitesburg Elementary, 33.30%

Clayton County

• Lewis Academy, 56.90%
• North Clayton, 26.30%

DeKalb County

• Cedar Grove Middle, 35.00%
• Dekalb Path Academy, 25.00%
• Dekalb Truancy, 66.70%
• Glen Haven Elementary, 44.90%
• Shadow Rock Elementary, 40.00%
• Stoneview Elementary, 48.10%

Department Of Juvenile Justice

• Sandersville, 25.00%

Dougherty County

• Alice Coachma, 31.70%
• Martin Luther, 45.60%
• Morningside Elementary, 31.60%
• New Jackson Heights, 57.90%
• Northside Elementary, 52.20%
• Sherwood Acre, 25.00%
• Turner Elementary, 39.40%
• West Town Elementary, 77.20%

Fulton County

• Gullatt Elementary, 44.90%
• Hapeville Charter Middle, 44.40%
• Woodland Middle, 29.90%

Gainesville City

• Gainesville Elementary 25.60%

Muscogee County

• Davis Elementary, 29.20%
• Muscogee Elementary, 51.90%

Quitman County

• New Quitman County Elementary/Middle, 42.40%

Richmond County

• Hornsby Elementary, 45.10%