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Old 05-04-2016, 04:28 PM
 
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I'd be very surprised if that was the case. Neighborhood Charter only has elementary and middle grades, so once that school is graduating kids, they have nowhere to go except Jackson, unless of course their families are moving away. Drew on the other hand, does have a high school. So that is a different story. The majority of students are definitely coming from the feeder schools, just because of shear number. But there have to be a good number of kids coming from Neighborhood as well.
You may be right. I have no way of knowing whether his assertion is accurate. What's notable to me is that it appears that they're making great strides with relatively small changes in enrollment composition. That really isn't the norm in urban education.
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Old 05-04-2016, 08:17 PM
 
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Congrats to everyone at Jackson.

At the bottom of the comments for that article there is a long comment from a Jackson parent correcting inaccuracies. Here is a small portion of it. "While I'm gratified that this article highlights our HS, the author is wrong on a number of points.
In 2011, Maynard had 791 students enrolled (our oldest daughter being one of them); it now has 1069.

Maynard had already been accepted into the IB Programme, and was accepting students into it in 2011. Teachers and staff were undergoing periodic training and reviews, and the first official classes started in 2013.
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More in the comments section here - Turnaround of Atlanta’s Maynard Jackson High offers national model | Get Schooled

Also per the DoE's Mar 2016 count Jackson is 8% white, 82 white students total. Jackson had 16 white students at the Oct 2011 count. Per the parent commenter almost none of Jackson's students are coming from charter schools. They're coming from the feeder schools in the cluster.

This does make more sense. Thanks!

(I had no time to read the comments earlier today)
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Old 05-05-2016, 12:48 PM
 
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Yep. Not good.


Inman, Sutton, and Renfroe did not have to worry about this issue as they progressed.
BUT a great many of those families in Inman and Sutton can and do afford private school. The melt starts before the kids finish elementary school and they don't make it to public middle. (Renfroe is probably the exception here and isn't really an apples to apples comparison. The demographics of City of Decatur schools has changed so dramatically in the last decade.)



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That's the number Jackson submitted to the state in March. It's on the DoE's website.
I have always found the state's numbers to be very accurate. They use the data provided by the parents to determine ethnicity.
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Old 05-05-2016, 04:28 PM
 
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BUT a great many of those families in Inman and Sutton can and do afford private school. The melt starts before the kids finish elementary school and they don't make it to public middle. (Renfroe is probably the exception here and isn't really an apples to apples comparison. The demographics of City of Decatur schools has changed so dramatically in the last decade.)





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True--and I was taking that into account. My point was to illustrate that those schools did not have as much (or basically no) charter-drain issues in addition to the issues related to the private school pull.


Many in SE Atlanta send their kids to private as well (but probably less than Inman/Sutton).




And yes, CSD/Renfroe is, like, so different now (after the K-3 switcheroo/redistricteroo in 2004).
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Old 05-05-2016, 09:30 PM
 
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Yep. Not good.


Inman, Sutton, and Renfroe did not have to worry about this issue as they progressed.
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True--and I was taking that into account. My point was to illustrate that those schools did not have as much (or basically no) charter-drain issues in addition to the issues related to the private school pull.


Many in SE Atlanta send their kids to private as well (but probably less than Inman/Sutton).




And yes, CSD/Renfroe is, like, so different now (after the K-3 switcheroo/redistricteroo in 2004).
There is a new charter school in Buckhead -- Atlanta Classical (I think) and it had a big impact last year on Sutton/ the later grades of Buckhead elementary schools, too.
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Old 05-05-2016, 10:17 PM
 
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There is a new charter school in Buckhead -- Atlanta Classical (I think) and it had a big impact last year on Sutton/ the later grades of Buckhead elementary schools, too.

That's unfortunate.

I knew there was this school, but was not sure about the impact.
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Old 06-27-2016, 10:37 AM
 
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Principal Stephanie Johnson a finalist in 2017 National Principal of the Year
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Old 06-27-2016, 07:21 PM
 
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This used to be Southside High Correct? lol sheesh, good to see things have turned around for the better since when I was in school.
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Old 06-27-2016, 08:29 PM
 
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Great to see Maynard Jackson doing so well.

Keep it up!

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Old 06-28-2016, 10:14 AM
 
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http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/cms/lib...%20Jackson.pdf
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