2 More South Cobb Schools Make AYP

Cooper Middle and Clay Elementary are two of the nine Cobb County schools to make Adequate Yearly Progress after factoring in CRCT summer retesting results. 

Including these additional nine schools, 90 of Cobb’s 110 schools made AYP. According to a CCSD news release, graduation rates for specific student groups was the primary reason that five of Cobb’s 16 high schools– South Cobb High, Pebblebrook High­, Campbell, McEachern and Osborne– did not make AYP.

Of those 20 schools that did not make AYP, seven are in South Cobb (including Smyrna’s Russell Elementary which has many students from South Cobb homes.) 

Eighty-eight (88) percent of Cobb elementary schools (60 of 68) met standards for adequate progress; 76 percent of middle schools (19 of 25) made AYP.

Of the six Cobb schools which remain in ‘Needs Improvement’ status, three–Lindley Sixth Grade Academy, Pebblebrook and South Cobb–are in South Cobb. Schools in this category have not met AYP for two or more consecutive years. Pebblebrook has not met AYP in three consecutive years and is currently in Corrective Action. The school also is required to offer tutoring and to offer parents the choice of sending their children to other schools within the district.

The Georgia Department of Education shows a different total for Cobb AYP schools because it includes Imagine International Academy of Smyrna, which did not make AYP and Kennesaw Charter Science and Math Academy, the Devereaux Center and Imagine International Academy of Mableton, which did make AYP. The four schools are not operated by the Cobb County School District.