Eight Fulton schools honored by Georgia DOE

Posted Saturday, May 6, 2006

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Eight Fulton County schools will be recognized tonight at the Georgia Department of Education’s annual Celebration of Excellence Banquet. The event celebrates 2006 Georgia Schools of Excellence and Title I Distinguished Schools.

Northwestern Middle School will be highlighted as a Georgia School of Excellence. Selection criteria require that a school be the top-ranking school in its Georgia congressional district or have demonstrated dramatic gains in student achievement in reading and mathematics for the past three years. Only two schools per congressional district – one for achievement and one for improvement – can be chosen. Northwestern represents congressional district six and is now eligible to represent Georgia in the National Blue Ribbon Schools program.

Several Fulton schools also will be recognized as Title I Distinguished Schools, a distinction awarded to Title I schools that make AYP for three or more consecutive years. Tonight the DOE will recognize seven of Fulton’s Title I Distinguished Schools that have achieved AYP for four or more consecutive years: Bethune Elementary School, Brookview Elementary School, Campbell Elementary School, High Point Elementary School, Oak Knoll Elementary School, Randolph Elementary School, and Stonewall Tell Elementary School. These schools are awarded funds for use in increasing student achievement across the school. The money can be used as incentive pay to staff, used to purchase instructional supplies, or be used for special schoolwide projects.

Though not recognized at tonight’s banquet, 17 schools received the Title I Distinguished School distinction for the first time earlier this school year. Certificates of Recognition were awarded in October to College Park Elementary School, Dunwoody Springs Charter School, Evoline C. West Elementary School, Gullatt Elementary School, Hapeville Elementary School, Heards Ferry Elementary School, Hillside Elementary School, Esther Jackson Elementary School, Seaborn Lee Elementary School, Liberty Point Elementary School, Mimosa Elementary School, Mount Olive Elementary School, Love T. Nolan Elementary School, Palmetto Elementary School, Spalding Drive Elementary Charter School, Harriet Tubman Elementary School, and Woodland Elementary Charter School. The schools will be eligible for state funds if they achieve AYP for additional consecutive years.

In addition, students from Tri-Cities High School’s Visual and Performing Arts magnet program will perform and a student from Milton High School will address guests at the banquet.

The Celebration of Excellence Banquet begins at 7 p.m. in the Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom of the Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young International Blvd. in Atlanta.

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