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…
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…
APS Adult Education 2025 graduates and class representative, Saderious Smith. Photo credit: Simeon Kelley, APS © “You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe,” said Saderious Smith,…
As Atlanta Public Schools (APS) prepares for its upcoming graduation ceremonies, the school district celebrated its valedictorians, salutatorians, STAR students, and STAR teachers at a special luncheon inside the Ocean’s…
Seven students from the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) Class of 2025 have been named recipients of the highly competitive Gates Scholarship, a full-ride award granted annually to only 300 students…
Atlanta Public Schools proudly celebrated its 2024 summer graduates with pomp and circumstance at the Georgia World Congress Center on July 25,2024. The 68 graduates, who spent the summer completing…
The Class of 2024 APS Adult Education Program’s graduating class showed the vast diversity of people and communities who were motivated to achieve this next step in their educational journeys.…
After four years of hard work and a strong desire to be challenged, 40 high school seniors earned the honor of being recognized as Atlanta Public School’s (APS) Class of…
“We were here to raise the bar for ourselves and we did it for our community and for our school and for the next great class of Maynard Jackson students.”…
“Most of life is spent sinking, losing, falling behind as life’s arrow inevitably marches forward. But there are moments, victories, where we rise above and bask in the glory of…