Douglas County School District

This article is about the school district in Douglasville, Georgia, United States. For other uses, see Douglas County School District (disambiguation).
Douglas County School District
Address
9030 Highway 5
Douglasville, Georgia, 30134-1539
United States
Coordinates 33°42′N 84°45′W / 33.7°N 84.75°W / 33.7; -84.75Coordinates: 33°42′N 84°45′W / 33.7°N 84.75°W / 33.7; -84.75[1]
Information
Superintendent Dr. Gordon Pritz
Faculty 1,074[2]
Grades Pre-school - 12
Enrollment 18,790[2]
Accreditations Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Georgia Accrediting Commission
Telephone (770) 651-2000
Website http://www.douglas.k12.ga.us/

Douglas County School District is a public school district in Douglas County, Georgia, US, based in Douglasville. It serves the communities of Austell, Douglasville, Lithia Springs, Villa Rica, and Winston, Georgia. The Douglas County School District is the seventeenth largest district in Georgia.

The school district's central administrative offices are in Douglas County, where graduates can access their records and transcripts, and where all major decisions about the schools are made.

Board of education

The board of education consists of five members representing areas of the county. The members are elected at large and serve a term of four years. The board of education meets twice monthly, except during January and July, on the first and third Tuesdays.

Schools

As of 2010, the Douglas County School District has twenty one elementary schools, eight middle schools, and five high schools.[3]

Elementary schools

Middle schools

High schools

Specific schools

South Douglas Elementary School

The school is located in a community named Fairplay.[4] The principal is Mr. Duffey and the school has a total of 538 students in grades Pre-K through 5th. The new South Douglas building was built in 1992. This was the first school in Douglas County to start an after-school program and the first to use the Reading First Program.

The colors for the school are red and white and the mascot is the Bear Cub.[5]

Douglas County High School

This was the first high school to open in Douglas County, built in the early 1880s. Most of the school was rebuilt due to a fire in the early 1990s, reopening in 1992. It has over 2000 students and offers over 40 clubs, extracurricular activities, and sports. The school offers the International Baccalaureate Program and a graphic arts program.

The school's teams are the Douglas County Tigers, which compete in the Georgia High School Association AAAA classification. The school fields teams in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, fast-pitch softball, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling.

The school's colors are navy blue and gold.

Alexander High School

Built to relieve overpopulation between Douglas County High School and Lithia Springs High School, Alexander High School opened for the 1986-1987 school year. The school's namesake, Robert S. Alexander, was an employee of the Douglas County School System.

Alexander High School teams are known as the Alexander Cougars and compete in the Georgia High School Association AAAA classification. The school fields teams in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, fast-pitch softball, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling.

The school's colors are red and black.

Lithia Springs High School

Lithia Springs High School is a public high school located on East County Line Road, in Lithia Springs. It is also known as Lithia Springs Comprehensive High School. It was the second high school to open in the Douglas County School District. Until December 2nd, 1975, the county had only one high school, Douglas County High School, which had opened in the late 1930s. By 1974 the secondary school population had grown to over 3,000 students, far too many for the existing buildings of DCHS to accommodate in a regular school day. Beginning in August 1974, the county had to resort to double sessions. This meant that those students designated to attend Lithia Springs HS would attend the afternoon session, starting at about 11:00 and going until about 5:30. Construction and weather problems delayed the grand opening of LSHS until December, 1975.

References

  1. ↑ "Free US Geocoder". Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  2. 1 2 School Stats, Retrieved July 30, 2010.
  3. ↑ Georgia Board of Education, retrieved July 30, 2010.
  4. ↑ http://southdouglas.dce.schoolinsites.com/?PageName='Directions'
  5. ↑ http://southdouglas.dce.schoolinsites.com/?PageName='AboutTheSchool'

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