public schools

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These are the public schools in Athens that are in the areas we're looking at houses (mostly, the areas clustered around UGA/downtown). The public schools are set up in a Zone system, so you can apply to any school in your zone, but people living within a half-mile of the school have priority. I have to call and ask some questions, since some addresses don;t fall within a half-mile of any zone. It's also unclear to me if the schools fill up, or have wait lists; the application process is in March and clearly we are coming in late.

Thanks to the GA Dept. of Education, I can get profiles of the schools. Here are some key (to me) stats for the schools (2006-2007) that are near where we're thinking about living:

*Oglethorpe: 453 kids, 95% econ. dis., AYP, ADEQ, 7% white, 52% black, 36% hispanic, has preK
*Chase: 226 kids, 94% econ dis., AYP, ADEQ, 4% white, 42% black, 50% hispanic, has preK
*Barrow: 369 kids, 26% econ dis., AYP, DIST, 68% white, 16% black, 7% asian, 5% hispanic, has preK
*Fourth: 335 kids, 94% econ. dis, AYP, NI-AYP, 3% white, 56% black, 39% hispanic, has preK
*Gaines: 520 kids, 90% econ. dis., no AYP, ADEQ-DNM, 7% white, 76% black, 13% hispanic
*Barnett Shoals: 570 kids, 67% econ. dis, no AYP, ADEQ_DNM, 29% white, 56% black, 5% hispanic
*Whit Davis: 573 kids, 48% econ. dis, AYP, ADEQ, 41% white, 46% black, 3% hispanic

Notice that the two schools that are mostly white kids and mostly not-poor kids are the most successful.