SAP Facts

Committee applicants will be selected by a team of DeKalb County School District staff. The team will review applications anonymously (applicants names will be removed) and rate their responses based on a rubric.

During the 2024—2025 School Year, there were four committees that met three times as a committee of the whole:

• North (Dunwoody, Chamblee, Cross Keys, and Lakeside Clusters)
• Central (Druid Hills, Clarkston, Tucker, and St. Mountain Clusters)
• Southwest (Cedar Grove, Columbia, McNair, Towers, and Southwest DeKalb Clusters)
• Southeast (Lithonia, Martin Luther King Jr., Miller Grove, Redan, and Stephenson Clusters)

For the 2025—2026 School Year, teams have representatives from multiple Board Districts (based on high school):

• District 1: Dunwoody, Chamblee, Sequoyah
• District 2: Druid Hills, Cross Keys, DeKalb Tech North
• District 3: DeKalb School of the Arts, Towers, McNair, Cedar Grove, DeKalb Tech South, Columbia
• District 4: Tucker, Lakeside
• District 5: Martin Luther King Jr., Southwest DeKalb, Lithonia, Miller Grove, Arabia Mountain
• District 6: Stephenson, DeKalb Alternative, Stone Mountain, DECA, Elizabeth Andrews
• District 7: Redan, Clarkston

SAP will take into account all stakeholders’ voices. We will not create recommendations based on the loudest voices.

Committees will use DCSD data, community and stakeholder feedback, and a decision-making tool to produce recommendations to boundaries, programs, and buildings.

The committee will review all school choice programs, their requirements, and the application process.

We will review where school choice programs are placed throughout the district and if their placement is equitable a meeting the needs of the community.

DeKalb currently offers over 50 programs under the following categories:

• Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE)
• Special Interest Magnet
• High Achievers Magnet
• Theme
• Early Learning
• International Baccalaureate (IB)
• Dual Language Immersion (DLI)
• Montessori

School districts should review boundary lines every five years and complete the student assignment process every ten years, as this is best practice.

Furthermore, DCSD’s process will align with the ESPLOST funding cycle to ensure collective voices are included in funding prioritization.

The SAP committee is not a decision-making body. They use data and community input to develop recommendations for the superintendent and the board to review and vote on.

• SAP will measure everything against the project’s vision and priorities, which were developed in partnership with the community, superintendent, and board.
• All preliminary recommendations will be shared with the most impacted communities for feedback before they become a final recommendation. 
• All preliminary and final recommendations will be developed using a decision-making process and scored using a priority rubric. 

The committee is an advisory body that triangulates and measures data against community feedback (qualitative data) and the District’s priorities.