Stars aligned over Midtown High School as four seniors earned Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR) Student honors in a rare four-way tie for top SAT score. Alexander Mendel Smith, Min Woo Kang, Nathan Philip Brawner, and Nicholas Andrei Fedorov each met the criteria for statewide recognition, which requires students to rank in the top 10 […]
Arlena Edmonds, graduation coach at Maynard H. Jackson High School. Photo credit: Allison M. Slocum, APS © At Maynard Jackson High School, the path to graduation is rarely a straight line. For many students, it is a series of detours that can threaten to pull them off course. Arlena Edmonds has made it her life’s […]
By: APS Office of Communications and Public Engagement Atlanta Public Schools (APS) achieved a new all-time high graduation rate of 90.5 percent (90.48) for cohort 2025, according to the Georgia Department of Education. This tops last year’s rate of 88.6 – and the district has surpassed the state’s graduation rate (87.2) for the third consecutive […]
ATLANTA – Atlanta Public Schools (APS) achieved an 88.4 percent graduation rate for cohort 2024, according to the Georgia Department of Education, which officially released graduation rates for the Class of 2024, Tuesday. This marks the highest all-time graduation rate for the district, and once again, the district has surpassed the state’s graduation rate of […]
The APS class of 2023 was a special class that made district history by achieving the highest graduation rate and surpassing the state average. APS achieved its all-time high graduation rate (86.6 percent) and exceeded the state graduation rate of 84.4 percent by 2.2 percentage points, according to graduation data released today by the Georgia […]
After its first full school year, The Frederick Douglass 9th Grade STEAM Academy has a lot to be proud of. As the only APS school with a separate ninth-grade academy on a separate campus from the main high school, the Douglass 9th Grade STEAM Academy made significant progress across several data points including attendance, retention […]
Across Atlanta, more students are graduating on time and fewer students are dropping out. According to results released this week by the state education department, the four-year, on-time graduation rate for APS increased by 8 percentage points – or more than 15 percent – from 51 percent in 2012 to 59 percent in 2013. This […]