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18Jun

Milton High School Among The Top 500 In Nation

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As reported in Newsweeks annual ranking of the top 1500 High Schools in the nation, Milton High School ranked number 311, an improvement over last years ranking of 333, and is the highest ranked high school in North Fulton. There are 54 Georgia high schools that made the list, with 28 of them being located in North Atlanta. I’ve highlighted those schools below among the complete list of top Georgia High Schools.

You can view all of the homes for sale in the Milton High School district. If you are interested in viewing homes for sale in any of the other North Atlanta School Districts, see the Property Search button to your right where school districts are a search option.

Rank	High School	Location	State	Index	Sub. Lunch	E & E
91	Walton	Marietta	Ga.	3.943	3	52
214	North Gwinnett **	Suwanee	Ga.	2.937	21	35
215	Campbell **	Smyrna	Ga.	2.935	50	40
217	Chamblee Charter	Chamblee	Ga.	2.926	n/a	n/a
225	Riverwood **	Atlanta	Ga.	2.891	23	38
280	Davidson Fine Arts Magnet	Augusta	Ga.	2.663	17	55
311	Milton	Alpharetta	Ga.	2.579	4	68
313	Lakeside	Evans	Ga.	2.578	16	44
315	Northview	Duluth	Ga.	2.569	4	53
316	Lakeside	Atlanta	Ga.	2.582	26	44.1
321	Norcross **	Norcross	Ga.	2.537	52	39
332	South Forsyth **	Cumming	Ga.	2.497	8	43
360	Lassiter	Marietta	Ga.	2.424	5	43
376	DeKalb School of the Arts	DeKalb	Ga.	2.39	n/a	n/a
381	Centennial	Roswell	Ga.	2.371	18	49
393	Berkmar	Lilburn	Ga.	2.348	61	24
398	Alpharetta	Alpharetta	Ga.	2.339	11	42.6
462	Roswell	Roswell	Ga.	2.216	21	50
489	Brookwood	Snellville	Ga.	2.177	17	n/a
539	Chattahoochee	Alpharetta	Ga.	2.083	7	46
552	Morgan County **	Madison	Ga.	2.063	38	6
569	North Springs	Atlanta	Ga.	2.039	39	42
577	Decatur	Decatur	Ga.	2.046	30	34.4
612	Duluth	Duluth	Ga.	1.984	33	n/a
643	Central Gwinnett	Lawrenceville	Ga.	1.941	60	26
657	Peachtree Ridge	Suwanee	Ga.	1.921	20	34
696	Columbus	Columbus	Ga.	1.87	19	43.5
698	Parkview	Lilburn	Ga.	1.869	20	28
730	North Oconee County	Bogart	Ga.	1.828	13	40
761	Wheeler	Marietta	Ga.	1.782	35	31
765	LaGrange	LaGrange	Ga.	1.779	48	21
821	Union Grove	McDonough	Ga.	1.709	18	29
831	Johnson	Savannah	Ga.	1.695	48	21
878	North Atlanta	Atlanta	Ga.	1.657	52	n/a
881	Marietta	Marietta	Ga.	1.655	60	n/a
917	Eagle’s Landing	McDonough	Ga.	1.619	28	25
961	Harrison	Kennesaw	Ga.	1.563	4	32
994	Starr’s Mill	Fayetteville	Ga.	1.53	5	37
1035	Dunwoody	Dunwoody	Ga.	1.483	32	31
1047	Pope	Marietta	Ga.	1.463	6	39
1093	Sprayberry	Marietta	Ga.	1.423	20	25
1150	Collins Hill	Suwanee	Ga.	1.371	27	29
1177	Carlton J. Kell	Marietta	Ga.	1.346	15	13
1180	Hillgrove	Powder Springs	Ga.	1.343	18	16
1226	Dacula	Dacula	Ga.	1.296	29	20
1238	Mill Creek	Hoschton	Ga.	1.28	18	27
1301	Kennesaw Mountain	Kennesaw	Ga.	1.221	18	26
1353	McIntosh	Peachtree City	Ga.	1.17	8	36
1391	Tucker **	Tucker	Ga.	1.118	52	16
1401	Grayson	Loganville	Ga.	1.111	22	n/a
1412	Morrow	Morrow	Ga.	1.097	59	8
1428	Sequoyah	Canton	Ga.	1.145	9	29
1446	North Cobb	Kennesaw	Ga.	1.066	30	19
1468	Pebblebrook	Mableton	Ga.	1.042	55	8

Public schools are ranked according to a ration devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 6 percent of public schools measured this way.

Note: Subs. Lunch % is the percentage of students receiving federally subsidized meals. E and E % stands for equity and excellence percentage: the portion of all graduating seniors at a school that had at least one passing grade on one AP or IB test.

** Includes IB. Nearly all other schools use just AP tests.

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19Jan

Final Recommendation District Map Posted for Birmingham Elementary

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For as many changes as School Board staff made between rounds two and three in the redistricting process, there were almost no changes from the Final Draft district map to the Final Recommendation map .

And it is not like they didn’t get any comments: Eighty-three pages of comments are posted on the redistricting website in case your Ambien is not working.

There were fourteen pages of comments taken at the Round Three meeting and sixty-nine pages of comments collected online. Thirty-four of the sixty-nine pages were PRO the map. When half the people are for something and half are against you have reached a decision.

The only change I could find on the recommended map was that the condos along the west side of Morris Road, including Morris Lake, were moved from Cogburn Woods back to Manning Oaks, where they currently go.

Now that the final recommendation has been made by staff, the full School Board will vote - and make changes as they see fit - to the plan in February. The transfer of government power in a democracy and the redistricting of an elementary school in a public school system: two tasks completed without violence and with orderly process that never cease to amaze me.

Now, I didn’t say there wouldn’t be some politicing; just no National Guard needed.

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13Jan

Tracy Trussell Named Birmingham Elementary School Principal

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Birmingham Elementary School Principal Tracy Trussel

MILTON - Tracy Trussell, currently principal at Creek View Elementary in Alpharetta, has been named the new Birmingham Elementary School principal.

Mr. Trussell has twenty-seven years experience as an educator in elementary education and has opened four new Elementary Schools as an administrator.

In 2003 under his leadership, Creek View Elementary was awarded recognition as a Georgia 21st Century Technology School. He has also been named VIF Principal of the Year and Outstanding Principal by the Georgia PTA.

Birmingham Elementary School

I visited the new school yesterday to continue my photo essay on its construction. The school is now black and yellow in honor of its new mascot the bumble bee. Elementary School mascots cannot be too intimidating, you know: no wasps, hornets or yellow jackets; just bumble bees.

Just kidding, but who gets to decide the important matters like school colors and mascot, let alone school name? I maintain that Birmingham Elementary School is a pretty lame name and likely the result of some engineer not know what else to call it when filling out preliminary paperwork.

Another observation on the new school: It is kind of ironic that the school is adjacent to Wood Road because there isn’t a stick of wood in the whole school so far. The entire structure is concrete, steel and aluminum studs, eventually covered by sheetrock. The roof is metal roofing. There will be a brick facade on the exterior. It is amazing to me that in our commercial, office and civic buildings we barely use any wood anymore, but in residential construction it all seems to be wood.

For updated pictures goto FULL GALLERY OF PICTURES FOR BIRMINGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Finally, no further update on the future attendance zone for the new school. We are still waiting for the plan that will be presented to the School Board for approval in February.

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11Dec

New Boundaries Proposed in Draft Plan of Birmingham Elementary Redistricting

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ALPHARETTA - Two things are abundantly clear: First, one of the chief reasons that North Fulton schools are as good as they are is because of incredibly strong parental involvement.

Last night’s third round Birmingham Elementary redistricting meeting was attended by approximately 750 people - and this was down from the roughly 1,000 that attended each of the first two meetings. One can only assume that turnout would have been as high as earlier meetings, but some parents must have previewed the draft plan earlier in the day online and were satisfied enough to stay home. None the less, measuring by the turnout, parents obviously care, and are involved and organized regarding schools issues that directly affect their families and children.

Speaking to the level of interest and involvement in the process, School Board staff said that more public comments have been received during this redistricting process than any previous redistricting.

Over 1,000 comments were taken during the Round Two break-out sessions and over 3,500 comments were submitted online after Round Two, albeit some of those comments were copy and pasted by organized neighborhoods and suggested by email chains. Still the level of participation is to be commended.

The other thing that was abundantly clear is that not everyone is going to be happy with the final plan. You simply can’t please everyone. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how much public comment the board seemed to take into consideration in the draft plan. I expected of one of the three proposed plans to be pushed forward as the draft plan. That wasn’t the case The School Board’s draft is truly a fourth plan that reflects many of the concerns discussed around the three previously proposed plans.

Here are the highlights of the proposed plan:

Birmingham Elementary Redistricting Round Three Draft Plan (1.2 MiB, 257 hits)

Roswell North ’s district will not change. They will combat crowding with planned expansions. Roswell North parents had strenuously resisted adding any of what is currently Esther Jackson or Mimosa districts to Roswell North ’s and they appear to have gotten their way.

Mountain Park will pick up some area along both sides of HWY 92 including Grace Hill, Sterling at Crossville, Glens of Crabapple and Greenway Hills. I never heard much debate about this one way or another. The objective is to relieve crowding at Sweet Apple .

To relieve crowding at Crabapple Crossing , its district is still being reduced per all three preliminary proposals. However, instead of the area that is in the north part of that district (everything north of Dorris Road and Landrum Road including Providence Lake and Atlanta National subdivisions) going to the new Birmingham Elementary , they are proposed to go to Summit Hill . It was explained that this was because there was a lot of feedback about the danger of the intersection of Providence Road and Birmingham Highway - can’t argue with that, its a death trap - and residents of Providence Lake thought it would be safer and easier to go straight through that intersection than take a left onto Birmingham Highway.

That change in Crabapple Crossing ’s district impacted the new Birmingham Elementary ’s district: Triple Crown was included in the Birmingham instead of Summit Hill district, which makes sense in my opinion. As a result, The Manor was then assigned to Summit Hill instead of Birmingham Elementary as had been proposed in Preliminary Plan B.

Harrington Falls neighborhood was taken out of the Summit Hill and returned to Alpharetta Elementary , leaving Alpharetta Elementary ’s district unchanged. I understand that this is a postive for the school because a large proportion of the PTA resides in Harrington Falls and this plan retains the stability the PTA provides.

Most of the debated centered around Cogburn Woods Elementary and Crooked Creek. Crooked Creek residents had openly been lobbying for a plan similar to draft proposal B that kept all the neighborhoods along Cogburn Road at Cogburn Woods and limited the amount of area east of HWY 9. What they got, was what was proposed in draft C. The good thing about the draft Cogburn Woods district is that it does still include the neighborhoods of Gatewood and Coventry, which are practically next door to Cogburn Woods and had been slated to go to Manning Oaks under proposed plan A. Those neighborhoods were very vocal and organized in their opposition to plan A and they appear to have had their voices heard.

As for Manning Oaks , Hembree Springs and Mimosa , Manning Oaks ‘ draft district extends south to encompass some of what is now Hempree Springs to alleviate overcrowding there. In turn, Hembree Springs is gaining everything north of Mansell Road that is currently zoned to Mimosa.

The Winners and the Losers

So who are the unhappy 5%? Crooked Creek without a doubt. One of the most interesting things in the meeting was the analysis of public comments. The School Board staff plotted on a map each comment they received online. Clearly this was a north versus south debate.

Birmingham Elementary Round Two Proposed District Maps (2.8 MiB, 195 hits)

For Plan A, the negative comments were in the north and the positive comments were in the south. Plan B was the inverse: the north (areas in and around Crooked Creek) favored it and the south (areas around Hembree Springs) opposed it because it resulted in huge overcrowding at Hembree Springs. With Plan C, the negatives were north and the positives were south. The proposed plan is more like Plan C than anything else with some tweaks in the south for Roswell North.

In the draft plan, the School Board staff seems to have addressed many of the issues with the proposed plans, but you can’t address the overcrowding of Hembree Springs without upsetting someone else’s apple cart and that someone else is Crooked Creek. My guess is that Crooked Creek is a victim of its size. As a neighborhood of 600+ homes you can’t send them to Summit Hill, as parents were suggesting at the meeting last night. There are just too many students in Crooked Creek to do that.

Has anyone played Blokus ? In Blokus, the best strategy is to play your big, oddly shaped pieces first because you might not be able to play them later as the board fills up. The same goes for school redistricting. Big neighborhoods like Crooked Creek have to be assigned early in the process and then the smaller neighborhoods around then can be used to fine turn the district boundaries.

Let’s face it: Many schools attendance zones are going to look very different next year, including Summit Hill, Hembree Springs, Manning Oaks and Cogburn Woods. Change is always difficult but also a fact of life in a quickly growing area. We must have new schools. I do give the School Board staff high marks so far in listening to the issues and actually making changes to the plans where possible.

And in the midst of this all, Manning Oaks goes out and gets itself named a Georgia School of Excellence .

The game is not over yet. The final proposal will be made to the School Board in January. Some changes can and might still be made. Then the School Board members can make changes on their own. Public comment is still open on the online discussion forum until 5pm tomorrow night. I’m absolutely positive that North Fulton is making its opinions known.

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18Nov

Redistricting Affects Cogburn Woods, Summit Hill, Manning Oaks and Crabapple Crossing the Most

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Birmingham Elementary School Redistricting ALPHARETTA - Not having attended the Round One redistricting meeting, I was floored by how many people attended last week’s Round Two meeting where three alternative redistricting maps were revealed. The gym at the Milton Center was packed with hundreds of people.

I was under the impression that redistricting for the new Birmingham Elementary school would impact only Summit Hill, Cogburn Woods and maybe marginally Crabapple Crossing and Manning Oaks, so I was surprised to learn that the ladies sitting next to me were from the Esther Jackson school district.

So, Yes, there are some "ripple effects" on all of North Fulton’s elementary attendance zones, but by and large the impact is isolated to Crabapple Crossing, Summit Hill, Cogburn Woods and Manning Oaks.

DOWNLOAD MAP OF THREE ALTERNATIVES

There was a ton of information delivered at the meeting and if you are just looking at the proposed new maps, it can take a little while to sink in. These are the general findings…then we’ll get to the analysis:

Schools East of GA-400 are not affected for all intents and purposes. There are some very minor boundary changes for Northwood and Esther Jackson , but nothing major.
Mountain Park ’s district is going to grow to take the southwestern part of Sweet Apple ’s district in all the alternative plans. I assume this is because Mountain Park has the most projected classroom space so the school district can off load some of Sweet Apple ’s overflow.
The same goes for Roswell North . In Alternative C, Roswell North picks up the southern portion of Mimosa ’s current district. Again, this appears to offset some capacity at Roswell North .
I feel like we are playing a game of Risk and Hembree Springs and Mimosa are Switzerland and Austria. Their futures could be wildly different than today, but their fates are tied to whatever happens to the districts further north. More on that in the analysis section later.
Crabapple Crossing : This one is easy. The district is getting smaller and the proposed new district is the same in all plans. The southern boundary is staying the same as it is currently, and parts north are being parceled out to Birmingham Elementary and Summit Hill . This appears to make sense. Crabapple Crossing is projected to be one of the most overcrowed schools in 2012; it will still have an enrollment issue but it does get some relief.
And now to the crux of the changes: Birmingham Elementary will pick up about two-thirds of what is now Summit Hill . Summit Hill in turn picks up about half of Cogburn Woods ‘ current district. And yes, it is like dominoes: Cogburn Woods then picks up about 30-40% of Manning Oaks which then picks up some of Hembree Springs . Basically take the existing attendance zones and turn them clockwise a couple of hours on the map.

Birmingham Elementary School Redistricting Proposed Plan C Now here comes the variability (and my analysis). At the meeting the other night, one of the most interesting slides to me was the one showing the discretionary areas. The school district does some very sophisticated modeling (I think they know more about our households than the IRS does) regarding where students are, what their needs are (special programs), future projections, etc.

This analysis is used to assign "study areas" to "service areas." Some of the assignments are obvious, for instance, if you live directly across the street from a school. Others are "gray areas" literally on the map: they could logically be serviced by multiple schools. Enter Alternative Plans A, B and C. These are the school district’s solutions to the gray areas.

At the center of the redistricting debate is Cogburn Woods, Crooked Creek and The Manor. I don’t think it is a secret that residents of Crooked Creek don’t like any of the alternatives. In the words of a Crooked Creek resident, "All plans are not in keeping with the current character of the school." Translation: there are fewer single family residences and owner-occupied residences in the areas proposed to be redistricted to Cogburn Woods.

Enter The Manor. If The Manor Golf and Country Club, which is in the far northeastern corner of Milton, is zoned to Birmingham Elementary then Triple Crown (near Providence Road and Birmingham Highway) will be zoned to Summit Hill instead of Birmingham. This trade allows more of what is currently Cogburn Woods to stay part of Cogburn Woods. That is, less area east of Highway 9 is included in Cogburn Woods in Alternative B. This is the Plan that Crooked Creek residents would prefer.

The problem with The Manor for Triple Crown trade, though, is that Triple Crown in about a mile or two right down the road from Birmingham Elementary, where as The Manor is about five and a half miles from the school. You have to go all the way across Birmingham Road to get there when a large portion of the other students for the new school will also be coming from the north. It just makes more logistical sense to balance the northern traffic with Triple Crown to the south rather than force fit The Manor into Birmingham’s attendance zone. Plus, The Manor is projected some day to have 400+ more homes, which would just mean that much more traffic across Birmingham Road.

One other nuance of the proposed alternatives involved the neighborhoods of Coventry, Gatewood, Hopewell Place and Southfield. In Plan A, these neighborhoods would be redistricted to Manning Oaks even though they are right around the corner from Cogburn Woods and are west of Highway 9. It probably makes more sense to keep those neighborhoods with Cogburn Woods from a practical matter that the kids can practically walk to Cogburn Woods.

Finally, looking at Hembree Woods and Mimosa, the impact on these schools seems to be somewhat the result of what happens to the north of them. Manning Oaks is projected to be the second most over crowded school in 2012 if there were to be no redistricting. How much relief Manning Oaks gets directly impacts Hembree Woods - and then trickles down to Mimosa.

Plans A and C give Hembree Springs the most relief; Plan B results in Hembree Springs being projected as the most over crowded school in 2012 and interestingly, Manning Oaks still the second most crowded in 2012.

Having combed over the different plans for a few days now, Plan C seems to be the most balanced plan across all the schools. Triple Crown stays with Birmingham Elementary easing traffic and Manning Oaks and Hembree Springs both get equitable enrollment relief. Coventry and the surrounding neighborhoods stay with Cogburn Woods; Crabapple Crossing is reduced in all plans and all other changes are marginal. Crooked Creek and possibly residents of The Manor are likely to prefer Plan B, though, so it will be interesting to see how the politics and behind the scenes influencing shakes out.

The school district has stated some very specific decision criteria for making redistricting decisions. We’ll see how they stick to them and how the justifications are made for the ultimately selected district map. Residents are encouraged to submit comments following these criteria on the forum . It’s a gray area though, and you know how those go.

Over 600 comments were received from the community after the First Round meeting and staff said that they reviewed and cataloged them all, including the neighborhoods they came from - and I believe them. I encourage you to comment. Staff does read they and they appear to be very thorough. The online comments along with those gathered at the Round Two meeting will be used to select the final plan, which will be presented at the Round Three meeting on December 10. The final plan will then be sent to the School Board for a vote.

What has become clear to me in this process if even after Birmingham Elementary opens, we still have a 60 classroom deficit in the combined Roswell - Milton high school area. That means that we really need one more elementary school if we actually want to have a physical classroom and not a trailer for all the students. Geographically, the most under-served area is northeast Milton near The Manor (and Crooked Creek). A school near these neighborhoods would iron out some of the wrinkles we are seeing in today’s district debate.

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10Nov

Second Redistricting Meeting for Birmingham Elementary Schedule for This Week, Thursday November 13.

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Birmingham Elementary School MILTON - The second round of redistricting meetings to see which little feet walk through this door in the Fall will be Thursday night at 7PM at Milton Center, which is the OLD Milton High School.

I missed the first meeting, but plan on being at this one and will report back on this blog what I learn. I know that everyone is anxious to know where the lines are going to be drawn.

Progress continues to move right along on the new school. I’ve been taking pictures since the broke ground in the Spring, even though the “official” groundbreaking was just last week. (Sorry, I don’t have a picture of that.)

You can see the entire photo gallery here: Birmingham Elementary Photo Gallery.

Here is a picture linked to from the Fulton County Schools website that shows a great aerial view of the site right as construction began. That is Birmingham Highway running in front of the site and the west entrance of White Columns gated section at the bottom. Aerial View of Birmingham Elementary Site

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16Oct

New High School in Milton Makes NIMBY Appear

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MILTON - I received a voice mail message a couple of weeks ago that I unfortunately erased. I had saved it and hadn’t immediately responded or blogged about it because I didn’t want to say something off the cuff or reactionary without considering my response thoroughly.

Time has passed now and the voice mail system has automatically erased the message; however, my initial reaction hasn’t changed one bit.

The person who left the voicemail was a reader of this blog and I trust will read this response. Her message was regarding my post on the purchase of the land at Cogburn Road and Bethany Bend for a new high school in Milton .

The gist of her message was that she was "fuming" that I could approve of the new site. Understand, the new site is within walking distance of her home and as she put it, there are already eight schools within something like 1.6 miles. Another school was just too much of everything. I assume she was talking about things like traffic, noise, lights, etc. She wanted me to write a blog post from her perspective.

The problem is, I can’t. I can’t because I don’t do NIMBY. I try to take a broader view of the community and support choices that are in the best interest of the community at large. Clearly, I mean without question, this site is superior to the previous site on Freemanville Road. I mean it isn’t even close.

First and foremost, the new site has access to sewer. That alone makes it better. But on top of that, it is closer to major roadways and will keep a lot of traffic out of the middle of Milton, which clearly doesn’t have the capacity to handle it.

I gave the School Board an "F" on their selection of the Freemanville site, but the School Board got a redo. The teacher said, "You failed the test, but if you go home and correct all the problems you got wrong I’ll give you half credit for each one you get right." (This actually happens in our schools, you know!)

We’ll the School Board went back and got it right this time. Their grade has been raised significantly. I still maintain that a redevelopment of the original Milton High School would be optimal, but I understand that that site is only 46 acres whereas the new site on Cogburn Road is 64 acres and provides more design options.

There was a lot of opposition by surrounding neighborhoods to the development of the new Milton High School on Birmingham Highway. However, in the three years since its opening the school has been assimilated into the Crabapple community pretty well, and the facilities are awesome. Yes, there is the occassional complaint about traffic, but the neighoring subdivisions don’t seem to be any worse for wear in general , and residents of Kensington Farms report tailgating parties and walking to football games on Friday nights.

Let’s face it, we need more schools. Milton High School is already overcrowded (2,336 students today) - and was overcrowded when it opened. By 2012, when the new school would open, it is expected to have an enrollment of around 3,000 and was built for only 1,950.

We are fortunate that the economic cookie crumbled the way it did and the School Board was able to purchase the land on Cogburn Road, land that had previously been unavailable because the owner was going to develop a 186-home neighborhood. What? That wasn’t going to create a certain amount of traffic, too?

So, my humble suggestion to my dear reader who lodged the gripe with my earlier post is (1) to take a more community-wide view of development because the new site really is better, and (2) to get ready to tailgate and walk to football games!

[NOTE : In the future I would encourage anyone to leave a comment on this blog regarding any questions, concerns or differing opinions. I don't pretend to know it all or have the detail that some of you have. Leaving comments here allows the entire readership to benefit from other thoughts on a topic.]

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9Oct

Redistricting Meetings Scheduled | Contruction Continues on New Birmingham Elementary School

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Steel arises at Birmingham Elementary I recently updated my chronicle of the new Birmingham Elementary School’s construction . (See the entire Gallery HERE .) The steel is being set in place and the school is beginning to take real shape, so much so that it is time to start discussing redistricting .

The three-meeting redistricting process is scheduled to begin this month. Here are the dates and times; all meetings will be held from 7-9PM at Milton Center (The OLD Milton High School) :

Round One - October 23rd

Round Two - November 13th

Round Three - December 10th

Other School Notes

Progress is continuing on the new North Fulton High School in Johns Creek. It is also scheduled to open next Fall.
In case you missed the news, the "new" high school for Milton has had a location change. Originally slated for Freemanville Road, the School Board has purchased property at Bethany Bend and Cogburn Road for the new high school .
Cogburn Woods Elementary School was recently recognized as the most energy efficient school in the Fulton County School System , receiving a score of 84 out of 100 on a national scale. There were fifteen other schools in Fulton County to score above 75, the threshold for receiving the designation from the EPA.