East Atlanta schools may move to K-8 model

A group of East Atlanta parents and community members will begin meeting this month to consider whether three elementary schools should be expanded to include middle school grades.

Atlanta Superintendent Erroll Davis presented three options this week in a letter to the community: Toomer, Whitefoord and Burgess Peterson elementary schools could be combined into one K-8 campus to replace Coan Middle School, or Toomer and Whitefoord could combine as a K-8 school and Burgess Peterson could decide whether to join them, or all three schools could be converted to the K-8 model in their current buildings.

Davis wrote he would make a recommendation to the Atlanta Board of Education in February.