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Program Description: DCSD implements a 50/50 dual language immersion (DLI) model. For half the school day, students learn math, science, and second language literacy using either French, German, or Spanish as the primary language. The remainder of the day the students continue their studies using English as the primary language.
The purpose of the DLI model is to prepare students for the global world. Students who have the ability to communicate with global partners and who possess intercultural competence will be prepared for the workforce. The program includes a K-8 articulation. In middle school, DLI students receive social studies and advanced language and literacy instruction in the targeted language with increased opportunities for advanced language study upon entering high school. Students may enter the program through a lottery in Kindergarten or first grade depending on space availability.
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Employees must submit applications by the deadlines as set by the Superintendent or their designee which coincides with the School Choice Open Enrollment deadline each year (generally February). Late applications are processed and approved based on seat availability of the school and are not guaranteed seat placement.
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Program Description: The PYP prepares students to become active, caring, lifelong learners who demonstrate respect for themselves and others and have the capacity to participate in the world around them. It focuses on the development of the whole child as an inquirer, both within and beyond the classroom. The program provides high quality, international education. It provides the knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes, and action that young students need to equip them for successful lives, both now and in the future. Schools work with the five elements to construct a rigorous and challenging primary curriculum for international education. It is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant for learners in the 3–12 age range. It focuses on learning experiences that go across subject areas.
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Program Description: The Montessori program and its diverse community assist in establishing a strong educational foundation for all students by providing a safe, nurturing learning environment. Montessori programs feature multi-age classrooms where children learn at their own pace through hands-on experience, using materials especially prepared for investigation. This environment enables our students to become life-long learners in a rapidly changing society. The Montessori program stresses the importance of adapting the child’s learning environment to his/her developmental level and of the role of physical activity in absorbing academic concepts and practical skills.
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Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Website
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Program Description: A traditional theme school is a school within a community that attracts elementary students from neighboring schools or at the middle school level from throughout the school district because of the unique features designed to meet the needs of students and parents. The traditional theme school is designed to offer students a comprehensive, interdisciplinary educational program in a highly structured setting. Students are active participants in a challenging program which includes home study projects and exposure to a world language. A cross-curricular instructional approach leads to more research centered assignments and hands-on projects requiring problem solving and critical thinking. Parents are a vital part of the program as they work to reinforce the instructional program and to provide support to the school.
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Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a DeKalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Providing a blended technology and environmental curriculum, while offering a rigorous high school preparatory program. The mission of the DeKalb Academy of Technology and Environment, Inc. is to educate a student population about the essential need to consider environmental ramifications of technology and other business decisions, via a hands-on, community-oriented instructional curriculum. The school will improve student achievement through an academic and organizational curriculum which: Recognizes the important link between technology and the environment; Promotes higher order thinking skills – critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making; Motivates students by offering a real world context for learning; Engages learners in investigative, hands-on/minds-on, student –centered, and cooperative activities between industry and environmental groups; Advances educational reform goals; Correlates to state and national academic standards; Considers the environment in its totality, i.e., the co-existence of business and the Environment; and, Promotes continuous lifelong learning.
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Note: This is not a DeKalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Rigorous College Preparatory Program; The mission of DeKalb PATH Academy is to create a safe and nurturing learning environment for refugee, immigrant and local children from the Chamblee, Doraville and Clarkston areas in DeKalb County, Georgia and to provide the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and character needed to succeed in top-quality high schools, colleges, and the competitive world regardless of their socio-economic and linguistic barriers.
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Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: DeKalb Preparatory Academy is the diverse K-7 community where teachers, children, parents, and leaders learn together. Students cultivate knowledge and learn to think critically and act collaboratively and compassionately. Our experiential curriculum intertwines sciences, humanities, and the arts to prepare children to shape our world.
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Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Leadership Preparatory Academy (LPA) is a public Charter School approved by the Georgia State Board of Education and the DeKalb County Board of Education that opened in August 2010. A strong academic program is the cornerstone of LPA. While we build leaders, we realize that effective leadership can only be attained concurrently with a strong academic foundation in reading, writing, computing, high order thinking, and creativity. We believe that as students learn and acquire these skills, they will become self-actualized and independent learners, accepting responsibility for setting and attaining goals. LPA has a unique curriculum designed to promote an awareness in students of their leadership potential at many levels including home, school, the workplace and in local, state and national communities. Students will understand and model multiple leadership traits such as responsibility, courage, reliability, self-reliance, vision, tolerance and initiative.
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Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: The GLOBE Academy is a dual language immersion charter school serving K-8 students in the DeKalb County School District of Metro Atlanta. Our dual language immersion model in Spanish, French and Mandarin prepares our students to be globally-minded citizens in the 21st century who possess the knowledge, skills and attitudes to effect positive change in our world. We use the educational best practices of constructivism and the workshop model to provide hands-on, project-based learning in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, music and the arts. Due to the rigorous nature of our immersion program, we only accept new students in kindergarten, first grade, and sixth grade.
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Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Our curriculum is built on the museum model, a model that fosters exploration and discovery, giving students a strong sense of autonomy, interdependence, motivation and a joy for learning. The museum school model is based on the idea that children learn best through personal exploration and hands-on experience. The school partners with museums and other learning institutions to provide real-life experiences with classroom topics. Interactive learning expeditions to partner sites offer students a chance to ask questions, make observations, reflect on experiences and draw their own conclusions. Learning is student-centered, project-based and interdisciplinary. Curriculum is organized into nine-week thematic units, creating an integrated approach to learning as lessons and ideas from one classroom subject are reinforced in other subjects and on learning expeditions.
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Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP). The focus of ICS is on educating the whole child, seeking to develop the innate curiosity of our students while celebrating cultural differences in a challenging, nurturing and intentionally multi-ethnic environment. With the dedication of our faculty and staff, the steadfast support of parents and the larger community, International Community School has created a learning environment second to none. We fiercely protect our students’ right to music, art, language, physical education and recess while insisting that they meet progress requirements in language arts, social sciences, mathematics and earth science.
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Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact
Employees must submit applications by the deadlines as set by the Superintendent or their designee which coincides with the School Choice Open Enrollment deadline each year (generally February). Late applications are processed and approved based on seat availability of the school and are not guaranteed seat placement.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder School | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Program Description: The IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), for students aged 11-14, recognizes that students in this age group are particularly sensitive to social and cultural influences and are struggling to define themselves and their relations to others. The programme helps students develop the skills to cope with this period of uncertainty. It encourages them to think critically and independently, to work collaboratively and to take a disciplined approach to studying. The MYP seeks to give students an international perspective—to help them become informed about the experiences of people and cultures throughout the world. It also fosters a commitment to help others and to act as a responsible member of the community at the local, national, and international levels.
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Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a DeKalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Providing a blended technology and environmental curriculum, while offering a rigorous high school preparatory program. The mission of the DeKalb Academy of Technology and Environment, Inc. is to educate a student population about the essential need to consider environmental ramifications of technology and other business decisions, via a hands-on, community-oriented instructional curriculum. The school will improve student achievement through an academic and organizational curriculum which: Recognizes the important link between technology and the environment; Promotes higher order thinking skills – critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making; Motivates students by offering a real world context for learning; Engages learners in investigative, hands-on/minds-on, student –centered, and cooperative activities between industry and environmental groups; Advances educational reform goals; Correlates to state and national academic standards; Considers the environment in its totality, i.e., the co-existence of business and the Environment; and, Promotes continuous lifelong learning.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Rigorous College Preparatory Program; The mission of DeKalb PATH Academy is to create a safe and nurturing learning environment for refugee, immigrant and local children from the Chamblee, Doraville and Clarkston areas in DeKalb County, Georgia and to provide the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and character needed to succeed in top-quality high schools, colleges, and the competitive world regardless of their socio-economic and linguistic barriers.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: DeKalb Preparatory Academy is the diverse K-7 community where teachers, children, parents, and leaders learn together. Students cultivate knowledge and learn to think critically and act collaboratively and compassionately. Our experiential curriculum intertwines sciences, humanities, and the arts to prepare children to shape our world.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Rigorous College Preparatory Program; The mission of DeKalb PATH Academy is to create a safe and nurturing learning environment for refugee, immigrant and local children from the Chamblee, Doraville and Clarkston areas in DeKalb County, Georgia and to provide the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and character needed to succeed in top-quality high schools, colleges, and the competitive world regardless of their socio-economic and linguistic barriers.
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Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Tapestry Public Charter School opened in August 2014 as an inclusion middle and high school offering an individualized, student-driven, experiential, sensory-based learning environment. Tapestry utilizes small, co-taught classes with authentic hands-on learning experiences and flexible groupings. Differentiated instruction ensures access to both accelerated and modified curricula, engaging and challenging students in a supportive environment that is optimal for achievement. All course content is aligned with the Georgia Standards of Excellence.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: The GLOBE Academy is a dual language immersion charter school serving K-8 students in the DeKalb County School District of Metro Atlanta. Our dual language immersion model in Spanish, French and Mandarin prepares our students to be globally-minded citizens in the 21st century who possess the knowledge, skills and attitudes to effect positive change in our world. We use the educational best practices of constructivism and the workshop model to provide hands-on, project-based learning in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, music and the arts. Due to the rigorous nature of our immersion program, we only accept new students in kindergarten, first grade, and sixth grade.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Our curriculum is built on the museum model, a model that fosters exploration and discovery, giving students a strong sense of autonomy, interdependence, motivation and a joy for learning. The museum school model is based on the idea that children learn best through personal exploration and hands-on experience. The school partners with museums and other learning institutions to provide real-life experiences with classroom topics. Interactive learning expeditions to partner sites offer students a chance to ask questions, make observations, reflect on experiences and draw their own conclusions. Learning is student-centered, project-based and interdisciplinary. Curriculum is organized into nine-week thematic units, creating an integrated approach to learning as lessons and ideas from one classroom subject are reinforced in other subjects and on learning expeditions.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | SFelection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact
In keeping with the fundamental principles of the national early college high school initiative, we strive to maximize college exposure to young people who can excel in this rigorous academic environment, namely underrepresented populations such as low-income (Title I school), first-generation college goers, female scholars, and students of color. The increased academic rigor, compressed time frame for beginning post-secondary work, and required commitment to community service leads to tremendous successes as a school and for our numerous graduates who have gone on to highly esteemed universities to pursue Bachelor’s degrees and so much more.
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Special Features | Grade Levels Served | Eligibility (9th Grade Seat) | Eligibility (10th Grade Seat) | Selection/Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels Served | Eligibility (11th Grade Seat) | Eligibility (12th Grade Seat) | Selection/Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels Served | Eligibility (11th Grade Seat) | Eligibility (12th Grade Seat) | Selection/Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website
1. Plant & Landscape Systems
2. Horticulture & Animal Systems
3. Audio-Video Technology
4. Culinary Arts
5. Therapeutic Services
6. Entrepreneurship
7. Energy Systems
8. Computer Science
9. Engineering
10. Music/Band
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Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder School/s | Contact
Employees must submit applications by the deadlines as set by the Superintendent or their designee which coincides with the School Choice Open Enrollment deadline each year (generally February). Late applications are processed and approved based on seat availability of the school and are not guaranteed seat placement.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder School/s | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Program Continuation Guidelines | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder School/s | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Program Continuation Guidelines | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder School/s | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder School/s | Contact | Website
Note: This is not a Dekalb County School District School Choice Program. Please contact the Charter School directly.
Program Description: Tapestry Public Charter School opened in August 2014 as an inclusion school offering an individualized, student-driven, experiential, sensory-based learning environment. Tapestry utilizes small, co-taught classes with authentic hands-on learning experiences and flexible groupings. Differentiated instruction ensures access to both accelerated and modified curricula, engaging and challenging students in a supportive environment that is optimal for achievement. All course content is aligned with the Georgia Standards of Excellence.
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Selection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website
Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact