Druid Hills High School

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Druid Hills High School
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The main building as viewed from the school's picnic area, December 2011
Address
Druid Hills High School
1798 Haygood Drive

Druid Hills
,
(Dekalb County)
,
Georgia
30307

United States
Coordinates 33°47′37″N84°18′58″W / 33.79356°N 84.31603°W / 33.79356; -84.31603
Information
TypePublic
MottoQuality Teaching, Quality Learning
Established1919
School number2055
PrincipalMark Joyner
Teaching staff85.00 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,332 (2021-22) [1]
Average class size250 to 400 [2]
Student to teacher ratio1:15 [1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s) Red and black
  
AthleticsBaseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, marching band, rifle team, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, ultimate, volleyball, and wrestling [3]
MascotRed Devils
NewspaperThe Spotlight
YearbookSAGA
Website druidhillshs.dekalb.k12.ga.us

Druid Hills High School is a high school operated by the DeKalb County School District. It is located at 1798 Haygood Drive, in the Druid Hills CDP in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. [4] [5] It serves the Druid Hills CDP, the North Druid Hills CDP, and the North Decatur CDP.

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School characteristics

Academics

Several levels of academics are offered at Druid Hills. From least to greatest difficulty, the course types available are online/DOLA, general, accelerated/honors/gifted, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate classes. Dual enrollment options are also offered. All classes are in accordance with Georgia Performance Standards and students must take state-administered End of Course Tests (EOCTs), unless otherwise exempt. Graduates often enroll as first-year undergraduate students at the University of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Georgia State University.

Druid Hills has had IB accreditation since 2004 as an IB World School, however, AP classes generally are more populated than their IB counterparts. Roughly 10% of the student body enrolls in the IB Diploma Programme, often with less than 50 IB students per grade.

Enrollment

Enrollment for the 2009–2010 school year was 1,421 students [4] in grades 9-12. A later population size indicated was 1,459. [6]

Accreditation

On December 17, 2012, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced that it had downgraded the DeKalb County Schools System's status from "on advisement" to "on probation" and warned the school system that the loss of their accreditation was "imminent." [7] Partially in an attempt to distance Druid Hills from the danger of disaccreditation and county mismanagement, parents and other contributors of Druid Hills High School began a petition to form a public charter cluster of five elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. This included Druid Hills High School, Avondale Elementary, Briar Vista Elementary, Fernbank Elementary, Laurel Ridge Elementary, [8] McLendon Elementary, and Druid Hills Middle School. The charter cluster would have granted some autonomy to the schools as a group while still remaining part of the DeKalb County School District. However, this charter was turned down by the Dekalb School Board on November 11, 2013, with a 5–4 vote against it, which was a final and non-appealable decision.

School Lockdown Incident

At 10:30 AM on May 5, 2022, students at DHHS informed their principal that they believed a fellow classmate had brought a gun to school. The principle then informed the school resource officer, locking down the school while police searched for the student and the weapon. The lockdown was ended around noon when police decided that the student had likely escaped to the area around the school, the student was later apprehended on the Emory University campus just before 4 PM that day. [9] [10] [11]

School Conditions Scandal

In early 2022, a group of DHHS students and parents posted a video showing various health and safety issues [12] .The DeKalb County School Board voted against modernizing the school, leading to student protests. [13] On April 25 the state superintendent sent a letter ordering the school board to take action to repair the school. [14] On May 31, 2022, the DeKalb County School Board voted 7-0 to restore Druid Hills High School at a proposed funding level of $50 million. [15]

Feeder schools

Druid hills is fed into by the following Elementary Schools: [16]

Druid Hills Middle School, formerly known as Shamrock Middle School, and The Museum School are Druid Hills' two feeder middle schools.

Notable alumni

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