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Interactive: How did my school do in Georgia's 2015 Star Climate Ratings?

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June 1, 2016

Georgia Education Department officials have released the second annual School Climate Star Ratings, a report card on how safe students are from classroom violence, bullying and other factors. Each school gets a rating from 5, being excellent, to 1, which means unsatisfactory.

You can find the scores for all Georgia schools in this searchable database by choosing your school district/school from the dropdown menu or seeing how each school stacks up by sorting each column from highest to lowest or vice versa. To see the record for an individual school, click on the arrows shown at far left.

» LEARN MORE: Climate at many Georgia schools worsening

Source: Ga. Dept. of Education

-- Database created by Mandi Albright, AJC

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Eric Stirgus joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2001. He is the newsroom's education editor. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eric is active in the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and the Education Writers Association and enjoys mentoring aspiring journalists.

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