At the annual fall conference of the Georgia Council for Administrators of Special Education (GCASE), the Hall County School System was recognized as a leader in the state of Georgia for outstanding efforts to improve the performance of students with disabilities.  Specifically, the Georgia Department of Education cited several key areas of performance that were reflected in data from the 2007-2008 school-year:

• Meeting the state target for educating young children in the least restrictive environment
• Meeting the state target for reducing the number of students who drop out of school
• Meeting the state target for students who meet or exceed state achievement standards for Reading/English Language Arts

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East Hall High School has made U.S. News and World Report's list of the top high schools in the country.  EHHS earned a Bronze Award.

East Hall High is among 30 schools in Georgia (4 Gold or Silver and 26 Bronze) and 1,925 nationwide making the list this year. The list is in the Dec. 4 issue.

"We analyzed 21,069 public high schools in 48 states using data from the 2006-2007 school year," reported the magazine in describing the criteria used to rate the schools.  "This is the total number of public high schools in each state that had grade-12 enrollment and sufficient data to analyze primarily for the 2006-2007 school year. A three-step process determined the best high schools. The first two steps ensured that the schools serve all their students well, using state proficiency standards as the measuring benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work."

Last year, Johnson High, North Hall High, and West Hall High had been singled out by US News and World Report as being among "America's Best High Schools.'

US News and World Report "Best High Schools" Issue

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