2012-2013 Fact Sheet

• In 2013, The Washington Post ranked Marietta High School (MHS) among the nation's 1,900 top public high schools in its list of “America’s Most Challenging High Schools.” Only 9 percent of the approximately 22,000 U.S. public high schools managed to earn placement on The Washington Post 2013 National High School Challenge Index. More»
  
  
• In January 2013, Marietta Sixth Grade Academy (MSGA) was named a Georgia Lighthouse School to Watch as part of a recognition program developed by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform. MSGA is one of only 17 other Georgia Schools to receive this honor since the program’s inception in 2002. More»
  
  
• In November 2012, MSGA received the Georgia Association of Middle School Principals (GAMSP) Effective Middle School Program Award. The award, presented at the 2012 Annual GAMSP Fall Conference, recognizes those schools that best exemplify the middle school philosophy as well as academic success based on state and federal mandates.
  
  
• Newsweek's 2010 list of America's Top Public High Schools named Marietta High School (MHS) one of the best high schools in the nation, ranking it among the Top 6% (790 out of the Top 1600) of all high schools in America for the 5th year in a row.
  
  
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ranks Marietta Center for Advanced Academics among the Top 10 Elementary Schools in Metro Atlanta and Georgia.
  
  
• Marietta City Schools (MCS) composite score (21.0) on the 2012 ACT outperformed the state (20.7) and was under the national average (21.1) by 0.1 percentage point. Marietta High School (MHS) students outpaced the state in three of four areas tested with higher average scores in English (20.5), Mathematics (20.9), and Science (21.0). The 2012 ACT results reflect the performance of 181 MHS seniors, up from 173 last year. More»
  
  
• Marietta High School (MHS) student's total combined average scores on the 2012 Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT®) outpaced the Georgia total (1452) in Critical Reading, Mathematics and Writing by seven points at 1459 (down 23 points from 2011). Compared to the national total (1498), MHS scores were down by 39 points. The national average decreased by two points from 2011. MHS results reflect the performance of 246 seniors tested. More»
  
  
• Marietta City Schools (MCS) 11th grade test scores (239) on the 2012 Georgia High School Writing Test (GHSWT) outpaced both the Georgia average (226) and the Metro Atlanta scores (229). In 2012, ninety-eight percent of students tested, either met or exceeded standards, surpassing both the state (95%) and the Metro Atlanta average (96%). African-American, White, and Hispanic students surpassed the state’s subgroup performance with 98% of African-American, 99 % of White, and 100 % of Hispanic students passing. MCS students also scored higher than their peers did in all four domains of effective writing: Ideas (3.6), Organization (3.7), Style (3.7), and Convention (3.5). More»
  
  
• The percentage of Marietta City Schools (MCS) eighth graders meeting and exceeding standards (87%) increased by 11 percentage points from 2012 and surpassed the state (82%) and Metro area averages (86%) on the 2013 Georgia Eighth Grade Writing Assessment (EGWA). More»
  
  
• For the 5th consecutive year MCS fifth-graders meeting or exceeding standards outpaced state percentages on the Georgia Grade 5 Writing Assessment. Of the 659 students tested, 84 percent met or exceeded the standard. Marietta City students outscored their state peers (80) by a four-point margin, and were on par with their Metro peers (84). More»
  
  
• Hickory Hills Elementary School has been named a Learning Laboratory School member of the Music-in-Education National Consortium (MIENC), sponsored by ArtsNOW. The nomination follows a successful MIENC site visit in May 2009.
  
  
• For the eighth consecutive year, Unit GA-20021 at Marietta High School (MHS) has earned the Air Force Junior ROTC (JROTC) Distinguished Unit Award. The Distinguished Unit Award is limited to the best of the best of the nation's 884 Air Force JROTC units, and recognizes units that have performed beyond normal expectations, and that have distinguished themselves through outstanding service to their school and community while meeting the Air Force JROTC mission of producing better citizens for America. More»

• In 2013, for the fourth consecutive year, Marietta High School (MHS) has earned recognition as an Advanced Placement (AP) Honor School. MHS earned Georgia Department of Education recognition as an AP Access & Support School based on the results of 2011-2012 AP classes and exams. AP Access & Support Schools: Schools with 30% of AP test takers that are African-American or Hispanic and at least 30% of all AP exams scoring three or higher. More»
  
  
• West Side Elementary Named Georgia Exceptional Library Media Program
  West Side Elementary School, and Library Media Specialist, Sherri Kenworthy, are recipients of the 2012 Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Exceptional Library Media Program honor. The GaDOE recently selected four exemplary and five exceptional Library Media Programs, and named nine Library Media Specialists statewide for recognition. More»
  
  
• West Side, Sawyer Road Elementary Earn “Reward Schools” Status
  On October 31, 2012, the Georgia Department of Education named West Side Elementary a “Highest Performing” school and Sawyer Road Elementary a “High Progress” school. West Side was selected among 79 of the state’s highest performing Title I schools and Sawyer Road was chosen from among 156 Title I schools achieving significant academic gains. The high-performing and high-progress schools, named “reward schools” category is reserved for schools with the highest performance or the biggest academic gains by students in the last three years.

• MCAA Named Georgia's First STEM-Certified School
  On March 8, 2012, State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge announced that the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics (MCAA) had been designated as the first Georgia Department of Education Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) certified school.
  
  
• A.L. Burruss, Dunleith, Hickory Hills, Lockheed, Park Street, Sawyer Road, West Side Elementary, Marietta Sixth Grade Academy, and Marietta High School earned recognition as Georgia Department of Education 2011 Title I Distinguished Schools. The nine are among 824 Georgia Title I Distinguished Schools recognized by the state for achieving Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) at least three years in a row.
  
  
• Two Marietta City elementary schools are among only 259 Georgia public schools recognized by The Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA) during the 2010-2011 school year for high achievement on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT). For the fourth consecutive year, the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics(MCAA) earned a Platinum Award for Outstanding Student Achievement – Highest Performance. West Side Elementary earned a Bronze Award – Highest Performance. More»
  
  
• In February 2011, State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge named Marietta Center for Advanced Academics (MCAA) a 2010 Georgia School of Excellence in Student Achievement. MCAA is one of 11 schools statewide recognized as a Top 10% school, and in addition to the special honor received a $1,000 check from Georgia Natural Gas. More»
  
  
• In December 2009, Marietta City Schools (MCS) earned two awards from the Georgia Department of Education’s Division for Special Education Services and the Georgia Council for Administrators of Special Education. One award recognizes MCS for outstanding efforts to improve the performance of students with disabilities by decreasing the number of students who drop out. The other award recognizes the district for meeting one or more of the state performance goals for students with disabilities by meeting the state target for graduates with regular education diplomas and for reducing the students who drop out of school.
  
  
• In November 2009, Marietta City Schools was named a Title I Distinguished District and awarded $50,000 for closing the achievement gap the most between economically disadvantaged students and students who are not economically disadvantaged.

• In June 2008, Marietta City Schools (MCS) became one of Georgia’s first Charter School Systems.
  
  
• MCS is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School district. On April 23, 2008, the school district became the first IB World School district in Georgia authorized to offer the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) for grades 6-10. With the addition of the IB Middle Years Program to the IB Primary Years Program (PYP) offered at Sawyer Road Elementary and the long-standing IB Diploma Program (DP) at Marietta High School, MCS is one of only a few school systems nationwide able to provide the full IB (K-12) continuum.
  
  
• Teachers use computers and other interactive technology tools in many of our classrooms from elementary to high school, sometimes on a daily basis, across all subjects and grades - in the preparation, delivery, and assessment of curriculum and instruction. Through the CyberSmart! Curriculum, students in grades K-8 learn about Internet safety, Cyber Citizenship, Computer Ethics, and netiquette. Our sixth, seventh and eighth grade students now have 1:1 computing access in at least one class per day, and across the district students rely on the use of classroom technology (interactive whiteboards, computers, printers, and other digital media) for learning.
  
  
• The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet program offered at the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics (elementary 3-5 magnet school) is now offered in grades 6-8.
  
  
• The district’s school choice initiative - Choice Academies program directly supports the district’s vision to be “…the school system of choice.”
  
  
• Marietta Reads!, the Marietta City Schools citywide effort to foster reading and literacy in the community, successfully helped Marietta ’s 2006 selection as an All-America City, because it helped the city demonstrate a program to benefit children and illustrate how the program has increased student test scores and book circulation.

Test Scores

Parent-teacher Conference Attendance

• Fall 2011: 93% attendance, Parent-teacher conferences (K-8)

Student Enrollment

8,466 (FY13 - Oct. FTE)

Student Demographics

African-American	43.5%
American Indian	0.5%
Asian	2.5%
Hispanic	31.8%
Multi	2.9%
White	18.7%
Female	49.1%
Male	50.8%

Employees (FY13 - Oct. CPI)

1129, including 710 certified personnel (of which 602 are teachers)
100% Highly Qualified teachers (NCLB)