Speaking of annexation , the DeKalb County School District released a report tonight on the impact of losing the Druid Hills neighborhood to Atlanta.

If annexed into Atlanta and APS, Druid Hills High School would lose some of the communities that now call the school their own.

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The report is one long list of losses to DeKalb taxpayers and students. For example, the report says the transfer of Druid Hills High School to Atlanta Public Schools would result in "1,075 disenfranchised and displaced DeKalb students."

Of the students left behind if Druid Hills High became an APS facility, the report says 58 percent would be African-American.

Here is the summary provided by the district. Here is a link to the full report:

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