Valdosta, Georgia has been named the top finalist to become the permanent home of the National High School Football Hall of Fame, ahead of Massillon and Berea, Ohio and Pittsburgh. The choice fits: Valdosta High owns more wins than any program in the country, and its crosstown rival is one of the largest high schools in Georgia.
Mary Johnson
The DeKalb County School District agreed to pay $29.5 million to seven charter schools that sued over withheld funding, nearly triple the roughly $10 million they first claimed. A judge had ruled the district breached its contracts, and the deal now requires it to show its funding math every month.
Arthur Chen
Gov. Brian Kemp suspended all seven members of the Dublin City school board as the small Georgia district works through a roughly $20 million financial crisis that began with a missed health insurance payment and has already cost 46 jobs. A committee will recommend temporary replacements.
Mary Johnson
Georgia asks for 23 units, including four years each of math and science, more than most states. There is no exit exam anymore, but the HOPE and Zell Miller scholarships set a separate, higher bar. Here is the full breakdown.
Kate Carter
The Georgia district couldn't justify $400,000 electric buses on its own budget, so federal Clean School Bus money bought them. The district says the 75 buses will carry about a third of its bused students.
Mary Johnson
New Georgia Milestones results show gains in nearly every grade, with fourth, fifth, sixth and Algebra hitting all-time highs. Eighth grade math slipped to 46% proficient, and that's the grade that signals whether kids are ready for high school math.
Mary Johnson
Matt Henson coached track at Parkview High for years, made the state coaches hall of fame in 2025, and was arrested this week on a felony theft charge. Parents' concerns about the booster club's finances started the investigation.
Mary Johnson
Florida, Georgia and Colorado schools are installing teacher-activated drones that can smash windows, spray pepper gel, and ram an attacker at 60 mph. They have never been used in a real shooting.
Mary Johnson
Six-year-old John Medina has been disciplined 33 times since 2023, including 14 suspensions. His parents say Fayette County keeps punishing behavior tied to his autism instead of following the plan meant to prevent it.
Mary Johnson
Chattooga County is one of only a handful of Georgia districts on a four-day school week. The free Mondays are real, but so is the trade-off: the district runs 38 weeks instead of 36 and started school unusually early to fit the required instructional days in.
Mary Johnson
We ranked every public high school in Georgia by its state-test proficiency. A Gwinnett magnet tops the list at 99.6%, but the more interesting story is what sits behind it: a wall of North Atlanta suburbs, and a handful of standouts far outside the metro.
Kate Carter
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating DeKalb County, Richmond County, and Savannah-Chatham County over whether they let employees accused of sexual misconduct quietly move to new jobs, a practice known as 'passing the trash.' All three districts say they follow the law.
Mary Johnson
Gwinnett County Public Schools ranks 14th of the 89 US districts enrolling at least 50,000 students by diversity index, and no racial group comes close to a majority. But the diversity is uneven school to school, and neighboring Cobb County ranks slightly higher.
Kate Carter
The cost of covering employee healthcare has risen astronomically for Georgia school systems over 16 years, from about $2,000 per worker a year in 2010 to more than $23,000 now. Districts say it is forcing tradeoffs that reach students.
Mary Johnson
A Georgia English teacher who said she was pushed out of her job over a private social media post about Charlie Kirk has reached a confidential settlement with the Oglethorpe County School District, ending a federal free-speech lawsuit.
Mary Johnson
Cobb County enrolls about 116,600 public school students across 129 schools, but the county name hides two facts that matter more than any ranking: it holds two separate districts, and its highest-scoring high schools cluster on the east side. Here is what the data actually says.
Kate Carter
Georgia has 2,290 public schools across 159 counties, and identifying the top five high schools requires being specific about the methodology. This ranking uses 2025 Georgia Milestones assessment data, the most recent cycle available, measuring the percentage of students meeting or exceeding grade level in math and science at each school. The Georgia state average for high school math sits at roughly 28% and for science at roughly 44%, so the schools below are outperforming the state by significant margins...
Kate Carter
Gwinnett County is the largest school district in Georgia and one of the twenty largest in the United States, with 149 public schools serving approximately 195,000 students across 15 cities. The county's 27 high schools range from some of the strongest academic performers in metro Atlanta to schools struggling well below state averages, and the variation between them is...
Mary Johnson
For families relocating to Georgia or moving within the state, school quality is often the deciding factor between cities that otherwise look similar on paper. Georgia's metro Atlanta suburbs in particular have developed reputations as school destinations over the past two decades, drawing families from across the country who are willing to pay more in rent or housing costs to land in a specific district or attendance zone...
Mary Johnson
