Programs

Coralwood is a school that specializes in Early Childhood Education for students with disabilities and typically developing students. The school serves children beginning at three years of age through kindergarten. The school follows the state approved, age appropriate curriculum for the students enrolled at Coralwood. Many of the classes provide an integrated educational setting that places students with disabilities alongside students who are typically developing. Typically developing students selected to enroll in the Coralwood/Hawthorne Partnership may continue enrollment to the highest grade level at Hawthorne Elementary School.

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Schools: Ashford Park Elementary School, Barack H. Obama Elementary School, Evansdale Elementary School, Pleasantdale Elementary School, Rockbridge Elementary School

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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Program Description: DeKalb County Board of Education Policy – Student Assignment Descriptor Code: JBCC Date Adopted: 4/18/2011 Date Revised: 5/5/2014. This policy makes provisions for employees who work full-time for the DeKalb County School District to enroll their children into the school in which they work or a school in the vertical feeder-pattern of the school in which they work.

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 High Achievers Magnet Program offers a unique educational experience to students in grades 4-6 who possess the intellectual potential, aptitude, and functional ability to achieve in a rigorous academic environment. The magnet program for high achieving students is comprehensive. It is designed to enable students to be creative, independent in action, critical in thoughts, and effective in communication. There is an instrumental music component in the curriculum, and students are scheduled into art and music classes weekly. In addition to providing a challenging curriculum, students are encouraged to enroll in the many after school academically-centered enrichment opportunities. Teachers and parents direct these after-school sessions.

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Program Description: The High Achievers Magnet Program offers a unique educational experience to students in grades 4-8 who possess the intellectual potential, aptitude, and functional ability to achieve in a rigorous academic environment. The magnet program for high achieving students is comprehensive. It is designed to enable students to be creative, independent in action, critical in thoughts, and effective in communication. There is an instrumental music component in the curriculum, and students are scheduled into art and music classes weekly. In addition to providing a challenging curriculum, students are encouraged to enroll in the many after school academically-centered enrichment opportunities. Teachers and parents direct these after-school sessions.

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Schools: Avondale Elementary School, Fernbank Elementary School, Midvale Elementary School
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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Schools: Briar Vista Elementary, Huntley Hills Elementary
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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Program Description: Discovery Learning Academy is an elementary instructional program that extends the Georgia Standards of Excellence to develop students’ academic, social and technical abilities and skills. The program mandates that teachers implement a variety of innovative and engaging strategies to narrow the achievement gap and increase academic rigor. Student achievement is heightened through community connections, participation in fine arts and the utilization of performance-based learning. The active, hands-on approach to learning will be utilized to allow students to better analyze and master the standards.

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Program Description: SB-10, also known as The Georgia Special Needs Scholarship (GSNS) Program, is a school choice program available for special needs students attending Georgia public schools who are served under an Individualized Education Program (IEP).

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Schools: E.L. Bouie Sr. Elementary, Marbut Elementary, Narvie Harris Elementary, Oakcliff Elementary, Robert Shaw Elementary, Wynbrooke Elementary

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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The Barack H. Obama Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education Magnet Program offers a unique and technology intensive environment. It provides grades 3-5 students the opportunity to go beyond the confines of the classroom to explore real-life problems. These students are preparing to harness the power of computers to achieve success in personal and professional ventures. The magnet program exposes students to DeKalb’s excellent curriculum. Each student will have full access to a computer or laptop throughout the day, every day. Increased access to the computer provides bonus: more time to improve reading and math skills and more time to solve problems and manage information. Students use computer technology to conduct grade level research projects that integrate all curriculum areas. Computers are used to collect and analyze data in order to solve problems. All students are strongly encouraged to enter the DeKalb County School District Technology Fair with a project in one of the technology disciplines. The magnet teachers have access to specialized hardware and innovative computer software for desktop publishing, graphic design, writing, simulations, science experiments, graphics and word processing. This technology intensive environment for third through fifth grade students provides each student with opportunities to express themselves and demonstrate their work at the higher order of the Depth of Knowledge process. Applications such as telecommunications and other technology are used to enhance the present instructional program.

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The Evansdale Mathematics, Science, and World Language Program strives to meet the needs of students in kindergarten through fifth grade with an interest in developing their math, science, and communication skills in a challenging environment balanced by fine arts and a world language component. The curriculum is designed to enrich the basic curriculum through an interdisciplinary approach as students participate in integrated hands-on activities. Technology is also used to enhance instruction. Students learn content through analytical, in-depth research studies. Activities promote higher-order thinking as students work in a laboratory environment to solve problems. French, music, and art are strong features of the program, helping to develop communication and creativity skills.

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Grades K-3 – Lottery based seat placement; Grades 4-8 – Audition and interview based seat placement. The DESA program includes core academic instruction along with visual and performing arts instruction in drama, dance, visual arts, and general vocal and instrumental music. Students in grades 4-8 are enrolled into a major and a minor class in two of the following art disciplines: dance, drama, vocal music, instrumental music, or visual arts. These students attend their major class three times a week and their minor class two times a week. Performing and visual arts field trips are taken each semester (examples include but are not limited to shows performed at the Cobb Energy Center and Alliance Theater). Students in grades 1-8 must maintain a 3.0 (or higher) grade point average (GPA) to maintain their enrollment at DESA.

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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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Program Description: House Bill (HB) 251, is a transfer option allowing students to enroll in another school outside of their attendance area within the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) based on seat availability after the school’s assigned students have been enrolled. In compliance with the law, the DeKalb County School district began offering transfers through HB 251 in July 2009.

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Program Description: DeKalb County Board of Education Policy – Student Assignment Descriptor Code: JBCC Date Adopted: 4/18/2011 Date Revised: 5/5/2014. This policy makes provisions for employees who work full-time for the DeKalb County School District to enroll their children into the school in which they work or a school in the vertical feeder-pattern of the school in which they work.

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

Program Description: The High Achievers Magnet Program offers a unique educational experience to students in grades 4-6 who possess the intellectual potential, aptitude, and functional ability to achieve in a rigorous academic environment. The magnet program for high achieving students is comprehensive. It is designed to enable students to be creative, independent in action, critical in thoughts, and effective in communication. There is an instrumental music component in the curriculum, and students are scheduled into art and music classes weekly. In addition to providing a challenging curriculum, students are encouraged to enroll in the many after school academically-centered enrichment opportunities. Teachers and parents direct these after-school sessions.

Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder School | Contact | Website

Program Description: The High Achievers Magnet Program offers a unique educational experience to students in grades 4-8 who possess the intellectual potential, aptitude, and functional ability to achieve in a rigorous academic environment. The magnet program for high achieving students is comprehensive. It is designed to enable students to be creative, independent in action, critical in thoughts, and effective in communication. There is an instrumental music component in the curriculum, and students are scheduled into art and music classes weekly. In addition to providing a challenging curriculum, students are encouraged to enroll in the many after school academically-centered enrichment opportunities. Teachers and parents direct these after-school sessions.

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Program Description: The middle school High Achievers Magnet Programs are designed to serve academically talented students. It provides students the opportunity to excel in a challenging, comprehensive academic environment. This program features the latest teaching approaches. Technology enhances instruction in all areas of the curriculum. This program provides a rigorous interdisciplinary course of study that meets the needs of highly motivated students. There is a “hands-on” emphasis throughout the interdisciplinary curriculum using computers and cooperative learning strategies. In some programs, students benefit from instruction in laboratory settings rich in materials and equipment. Technology is integrated into the curriculum. World language is taught daily and is considered core content. The objective of this magnet program is to target the development and expansion of student capabilities needed for leadership in the future.

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Program Description: The middle school High Achievers Magnet Programs are designed to serve academically talented students. It provides students the opportunity to excel in a challenging, comprehensive academic environment. This program features the latest teaching approaches. Technology enhances instruction in all areas of the curriculum. This program provides a rigorous interdisciplinary course of study that meets the needs of highly motivated students. There is a “hands-on” emphasis throughout the interdisciplinary curriculum using computers and cooperative learning strategies. In some programs, students benefit from instruction in laboratory settings rich in materials and equipment. Technology is integrated into the curriculum. World language is taught daily and is considered core content. The objective of this magnet program is to target the development and expansion of student capabilities needed for leadership in the future.

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Schools: Druid Hills Middle School, Salem Middle School, Tucker Middle School
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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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.

Special Features | Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact | Website

Program Description: SB-10, also known as The Georgia Special Needs Scholarship (GSNS) Program, is a school choice program available for special needs students attending Georgia public schools who are served under an Individualized Education Program (IEP).

Grade Levels | Eligibility | Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Feeder Schools | Contact

Program Description: The magnet program emphasizes concepts and skills required to go beyond the confines of basic instruction. The curriculum is designed to develop math, science, and technical skills as well as enhance creative, critical, and research skills. Science instruction takes place in a laboratory setting to provide students with real-life, hands-on experiences. Technology is integrated to allow students to take part in tutorials, simulated experiments, problem-solving activities, and collecting and analyzing data for research projects.

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Program Description: The DESA program includes core academic instruction along with visual and performing arts instruction in drama, dance, visual arts, and general vocal and instrumental music. Students in grades 6-8 are enrolled into a major and a minor class in two of the following art disciplines: dance, drama, vocal music, instrumental music, or visual arts. These students attend their major class three times a week and their minor class two times a week. Performing and visual arts field trips are taken each semester (examples include but are not limited to shows performed at the Cobb Energy Center and Alliance Theater). Students in grades 1-8 must maintain a 3.0 (or higher) grade point average (GPA) to maintain their enrollment at DESA.

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.

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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.

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

Program Description: House Bill (HB) 251, is a transfer option allowing students to enroll in another school outside of their attendance area within the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) based on seat availability after the school’s assigned students have been enrolled. In compliance with the law, the DeKalb County School district began offering transfers through HB 251 in July 2009.

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Program Description: Established in 2006, DeKalb Early College Academy is the only early college model high school for the DeKalb County School District. Along with our educational partner – Georgia State University at Perimeter College – our students take some of their upper division courses on a college campus. They receive high school units towards graduation and post-secondary credits simultaneously. Upon completion of the program, students will earn their high school diploma, at least 30 hours of college credit hours, and likely a CTAE Pathway certification. Since these courses are paid with Move-On-When-Ready state funding, there are minimal costs incurred by scholars and their families.

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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Program Description: The Magnet Programs for High Achievers are designed to challenge students who will benefit from a fast-paced, stimulating environment. These programs provide a rigorous interdisciplinary course of study that meets the needs of highly motivated students. Special emphasis is placed on preparing students to succeed through higher-order critical thinking skills, creative and cooperative teaching, fluency in a second language, extensive computer-based and multimedia instruction, and the infusion of multicultural literature. Technology is integrated into the interdisciplinary curriculum. Core subjects are taught at an accelerated level with a variety of early Advanced Placement (AP) opportunities being offered to ninth through twelfth grade students. Through deliberate and instructional interventions students progress to higher levels of intellectual functioning. This educational program provides students the opportunity to excel in a challenging and comprehensive academic program.

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Program Description: The Magnet Programs for High Achievers are designed to challenge students who will benefit from a fast-paced, stimulating environment. These programs provide a rigorous interdisciplinary course of study that meets the needs of highly motivated students. Special emphasis is placed on preparing students to succeed through higher-order critical thinking skills, creative and cooperative teaching, fluency in a second language, extensive computer-based and multimedia instruction, and the infusion of multicultural literature. Technology is integrated into the interdisciplinary curriculum. Core subjects are taught at an accelerated level with a variety of early Advanced Placement (AP) opportunities being offered to ninth through twelfth grade students. Through deliberate and instructional interventions students progress to higher levels of intellectual functioning. This educational program provides students the opportunity to excel in a challenging and comprehensive academic program.

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Program Description: The IB Preparatory is designed for students who desire to prepare to earn an IB Diploma (at Druid Hills, Martin Luther King Jr., or Tucker High Schools) or an IB Career-related Certificate (at Tucker High only). This is a rigorous, advanced, and challenging program of study. The first two years prepare students to undertake one of the IB programs in grades 11-12. Traditional academic subjects are part of both programs, but they also emphasize the interrelatedness of knowledge and skills through transdisciplinary programs of inquiry. In the Diploma Programme (DP), students are supported by a required course, Theory of Knowledge (TOK) while they study 6 additional subjects: first language, second language, social studies, mathematics, science and fine arts. Students are required to develop a proficiency in a second language during the program. In the Career-related Programme (CP), students are supported by a required course, Personal and Professional Skills, while they study a full career pathway, two IB Diploma courses, and develop a second language. Students in both programs engage in service as well as in-depth research and are assessed internally and externally by IB trained teachers at authorized IB schools. IB Prep students in grades 9-10 must take the most rigorous courses available at the school and develop their writing and research skills. Students who complete the programs in 12th grade may receive advanced standing in colleges and universities in the United States and around the world.

Special Features | Grade Levels Served | Eligibility (9th Grade Seat) | Eligibility (10th Grade Seat) | Selection/Lottery Priority Pools | Selection Process | Transportation | Contact | Website

Program Description: The IB Career-related Programme (CP) at Tucker High School is designed for students who wish to complete a career pathway with in-depth study of academic subjects, career-related research, service learning, second language development, and a unique Personal and Professional Skills class. This is a rigorous, advanced, and challenging program of study and the only one of its kind that combines career studies with highly rigorous, inquiry-based academic study. Students may enter the IB CP Prep program in 9th or 10th grade with curriculum engagement beginning in the 11th grade. Students must complete the first course in one of the following career pathways: Culinary Arts, Computer Science, Engineering, or Healthcare Science. Students will finish the career pathway, including the end-of-pathway exam, by 12th grade. Students commit to the personal exploration of their career pathway through research and service learning. Students study two IB Diploma courses during their 11th & 12th grade years, and submit exams for these courses. They will also develop their ability to use a second language during the program. The program anchor is the Personal and Professional Skills course, where students learn relevant skills and attitudes to prepare them for success in both their personal and professional futures. IB CP completers may receive the Career-related Certificate and/or advanced credits for college. They will graduate with in-depth knowledge of their career pathway as well as an understanding of the skills and attitudes that are fundamental success in learning and professional life.

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Program Description: The IB Diploma Program (DP) is designed for students who desire the most rigorous, advanced, and challenging program of study. IB candidate students take pre-university level courses throughout their 11th and 12th grade years. Traditional academic subjects are part of the program, but it also emphasizes the interrelatedness of knowledge and skills through a transdisciplinary program of inquiry which is supported by a required course, Theory of Knowledge (ToK). The IB DP subject areas are first language, second language, social studies, mathematics, science and fine arts. Students are required to develop a proficiency in a second language during the program. Students are assessed internally by IB trained teachers at the local authorized IB schools and externally by IB examiners worldwide to receive the IB Diploma. DP students must also complete Creativity, Action, & Service (CAS) hours throughout the program, complete a 4,000 word extended essay, and take the ToK course. Advanced standing may be awarded by colleges and universities in the United States and around the world.

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Program Description: High school Career Pathway programs simulate real life experiences and are the first step to engaging in a career path. The school offers 12 career pathways.

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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Program Description: SB-10, also known as The Georgia Special Needs Scholarship (GSNS) Program, is a school choice program available for special needs students attending Georgia public schools who are served under an Individualized Education Program (IEP).

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Program Description: DeKalb County Board of Education Policy – Student Assignment Descriptor Code: JBCC Date Adopted: 4/18/2011; Date Revised: 5/5/2014. This policy makes provisions for employees who work full-time for the DeKalb County School District to enroll their children into the school in which they work or a school in the vertical feeder-pattern of the school in which they work.

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: Students will be challenged by the magnet program curriculum focused on Engineering, Energy and Environmental sciences.

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Program Description: The Mathematics, Science, and Technology Magnet Program offers students interested in the fields of math, science, and technology an opportunity to build skills and knowledge in these areas. The magnet program integrates technology into an interdisciplinary curriculum of natural sciences, mathematics, and computer science. Emphasis is placed on preparing students to enter careers related to science, mathematics, and technology. Advanced study of scientific principles and mathematical concepts will enhance the opportunity for success at the college and career levels. Courses for the enhanced tenth through twelfth grade curriculum include: Advanced Placement (AP) courses in U.S. History, Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, and World Languages – French and Spanish. Research and lab techniques are major features. Extended studies allow students to experience real life, hands-on studies beyond the traditional classroom. This program is designed to present math, science, and technology in a single approach to learning. The curriculum is implemented by integrating the subject areas through science applications. Scientific and mathematical equipment and supplies, as well as computer hardware and software, are available for use by the students.

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Program Description: The DeKalb School of the Arts (DSA) is uniquely designed to appeal to high school students in the areas of music (vocal and instrumental), dance, visual arts, technical theater, creative writing, media technology, drama, and musical theater. DSA is the only DeKalb high school that offers a program encompassing all aspects of performance and applied arts. It also affords students the opportunity to satisfy the requirements of the excellent academic program prescribed under the DeKalb curriculum guidelines. Long-range life enrichment is viewed as a goal for all participants in this magnet high school. The program is noted for an outstanding faculty, comprehensive course offerings, and numerous special performances which emerge as a natural outgrowth of the curriculum.

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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 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.

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Program Description: House Bill (HB) 251, is a transfer option allowing students to enroll in another school outside of their attendance area within the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) based on seat availability after the school’s assigned students have been enrolled. In compliance with the law, the DeKalb County School district began offering transfers through HB 251 in July 2009.

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