More than 60 Atlanta Public Schools and DeKalb County schools are among those the Department of Education considers the lowest performing in the state.
The schools appeared on the Georgia Department of Education's list of "priority" and "focus" schools released today.
These lists are the new, revised versions of schools deemed failing under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Schools in other metro school districts, including Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett, also appear on the lists.
In a written statement, State School Superintendent Richard Woods said the state Department of Education would “work with the schools identified to ensure they have the resources they need to provide a quality education for their students.”
Atlanta-area Priority Schools
These schools rank in the lowest 5 percent of high-poverty schools in terms of academic achievement.
Atlanta Public Schools
- Connally Elementary School
- Coretta Scott King Young Women's Academy High School
- Douglass High School
- Dunbar Elementary School
- Maynard H. Jackson, Jr. High School
- Mays High School
- School of Health Sciences and Research at Carver
- School of Technology at Carver
- South Atlanta School of Health and Medical Science
- The Best Academy at Benjamin S. Carson High School
- The School of the Arts at Carver
- Therrell School of Engineering, Math, and Science
- Therrell School of Health and Science
- Therrell School of Law, Government and Public Policy
- Thomasville Heights Elementary School
Cobb
- Osborne High School
DeKalb County
- Clarkston High School
- Columbia High School
- Cross Keys High School
- Destiny Achievers Academy of Excellence
- Knollwood Elementary School
- Margaret Harris Comprehensive School
- McNair High School
- Redan High School
- Toney Elementary School
- Towers High School
Fulton County
- Banneker High School
- Hapeville Charter Career Academy
- Tri-Cities High School
Gwinnett County
- Berkmar High School
- Meadowcreek High School
Atlanta-area Focus Schools
These schools rank in the lowest 10 percent of high-poverty schools in terms of the achievement gap among high and low-performing students.
Atlanta Public Schools
- Benteen Elementary School
- Bethune Elementary School
- Boyd Elementary School
- Brown Middle School
- Centennial Place Elementary School
- Cleveland Elementary School
- Continental Colony Elementary School
- D. H. Stanton Elementary School
- Dobbs Elementary School
- Fain Elementary School
- Fickett Elementary School
- Gideons Elementary School
- Grove Park Intermediate School
- Humphries Elementary School
- Miles Intermediate School
- Parkside Elementary School
- Peyton Forest Elementary School
- Slater Elementary School
- The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools
- Toomer Elementary School
- Towns Elementary School
- Young Middle School
Cobb County
- Birney Elementary School
- Clarkdale Elementary School
- Milford Elementary School
DeKalb County
- Allgood Elementary School
- Bob Mathis Elementary School
- Browns Mill Elementary School
- Canby Lane Elementary School
- Clifton Elementary School
- Columbia Middle School
- Eldridge L. Miller Elementary School
- Freedom Middle School
- Kelley Lake Elementary School
- Lithonia Middle School
- Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School
- Meadowview Elementary School
- Montclair Elementary School
- Princeton Elementary School
- Ronald E McNair Discover Learning Academy Elementary School
- Smoke Rise Elementary School
- Snapfinger Elementary School
- Stoneview Elementary School
Fulton County
- Bethune Elementary School
- Gullatt Elementary School
- Hamilton E. Holmes Elementary
- Hapeville Charter Middle School
- High Point Elementary School
- Jackson Elementary School
- Lake Forest Elementary
- Lee Elementary School
- Mount Olive Elementary School
- Nolan Elementary School
- Sandtown Middle School
- Woodland Middle School
Gwinnett County
- Rockbridge Elementary School
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