On Sunday, September 25 the APS Office of High Schools and the Department of K-12 College and Career Readiness will host “Education on the Green: Putting for Students’ Dreams,” the district’s first annual golf tournament. The event will take place at Heritage Golf Links (455 Britt Road, Tucker, GA 30084) from 9:00 am until 3:30 […]
Please find below your weekly APS sports schedule. Congratulations to Grady High School on their first place win and North Atlanta High School on their second place win during this weekend’s first annual APS Volleyball Invitational! Date Teams Time Location Varsity Football 16-Sep Maynard Jackson @ Decatur 7:30PM Decatur 16-Sep South Atlanta […]
APS Sports Schedule August 26th and August 27th Date Teams Time Location Varsity Football 8-26 North Atlanta @South Atlanta 5:30PM Grady Stadium 8-26 BestAcademy@ Hapeville Charter 7:30PM Hapeville Charter 8-26 Westlake@Washington 8:00PM Grady Stadium 8-26 Douglass @ Marist 7:30PM Marist Stadium 8-26 Mays @ Dunwoody 7:30PM N. Dekalb […]
Grady Stadium has become the fourth APS project in the past several years to receive an Award of Excellence from the Atlanta Urban Design Commission. The other APS projects earning the award recently are Springdale Park Elementary School (2010), Grady High School (2006) and Long Middle School (2007). The award ceremony, hosted last week […]
Beecher Hills Elementary fifth-grader Trinity Davenport has been chosen to be a part of a seven-member youth panel (elementary through high school) at the Second Annual Georgia School Wellness Summit on March 19 on the campus of Clayton State University. Davenport will not only be representing Beecher Hills and APS, but also the voice of every student […]
UPDATE: The Atlanta Wolfpack team WON its fifth state wheelchair title in six years over the weekend! Reece Johnson scored 12 points in a 35-25 win over arch-rival West Georgia in the finals held Friday at the Gwinnett Arena. Johnson is a senior at Crim Open Campus, was praised by his coach in an AJC article: […]
APS Director of Athletics Jeff Beggs was excited to share this press release with us: The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF), in partnership with the Chick-fil-A Bowl, announced today that Marcus Mack, a senior linebacker from North Atlanta High School in Atlanta, Ga., has been named the Play It Smart Student-Athlete […]
Big thanks to Washington High’s Early College for sharing information about the 5-Alive Program presented by D.Y.N.A.2M.I.C. Foundation, Inc., led by president and founder Shena Locke and Atlanta Hawk Damien Wilkins. This program is a developmental program targeting at-risk males that addresses the “5 A’s”: Attitude, Academics, Accountability, Appreciation, and Ambition. The D.Y.N.A.2M.I.C. Foundation offers students […]
The Harper-Archer Middle School girls basketball team does it again. The Lady Jaguars defeated the Young Middle Wolves for the APS Middle School Championship. The Lady Jaguars had an undefeated season (10-0). This is the team’s second year winning the title. Not only are the girls powerful on the court, but in the classroom as well. […]
In honor of Black History Month, Major League Baseball‘s long-time home run king Hank Aaron was joined by former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Major League Baseball to talk to students about the sport’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement during an assembly at Jean Childs Young Middle School on Feb. 14. Jimmie […]