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Oct 9

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Oct 11

SWD Varsity Football vs Tucker, 7:30PM Adams

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Oct 23

PSAT Test Administration

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Oct 23

SAT Test Administration

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Oct 23

SWD PAC Meeting | Wednesday, October 23, 2024 @ 5:00PM (VIRTUAL)

5:00 PM Read More..
Oct 24

SWD Varsity Football vs Northview, 7:00PM Hallford Stadium

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Oct 31

ASVAB Test Administration

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Nov 1

SWD Varsity Football vs Druid Hills, 7:30PM North DeKalb Stadium

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Mission & Vision

The vision of the DeKalb County School District is to inspire our community of learners to achieve educational excellence. Our mission is to ensure student success, leading to higher education, work, and life-long learning. We are making this vision and mission a reality – every day, in every classroom throughout the District.

Through community forums, focus groups, listening sessions, and more, we have engaged our stakeholders, refined our objectives, honed our procedures, and formulated a robust, highly-structured yet agile and adaptive strategic plan. We are pleased with the progress we have made thus far, and excited about the future – of our District, our community, and, most importantly, the 100,000+ students who daily bring to us their limitless potential.

The District has created performance measures, targets, and initiatives to ensure success in each goal area. A monitoring and data collection process has been developed, and rigorous progress check procedures have been implemented. At the local level, on-going training sessions are offered to all principals in order to support the work of aligning, refining, monitoring, and evaluating the continuous improvement efforts of each individual school.

As a community of learners, we are committed to excellence in everything we do – within the classroom and throughout the District. This continuous improvement process permeates each aspect of our Strategic Plan, and we are honored to partner with you to make it a reality for all.