Agenda Item
1. Superintendent's Report - Reorganization, Operation Updates - School Opening Presentation
Summary: Presented by: Dr. Devon Q. Horton, Superintendent
Superintendent’s Report
August 14, 2023
Dr. Devon Q. Horton
Superintendent
First Week of School Visits
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Dr. Horton and Principal
Phillips w/ Scholars at
The Early Learning Center
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Board Vice-Chair, Deidria Pierce, and
Principal Walker lead campus tour of
McNair High School
Fernbank Elementary
Scholars enlighten
Superintendent Horton
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Warren Tech Administrators
Board Member McGinnis thanking
School Nutrition Team Members
Board Member Gevertz
listening during visit to
Lakeside High School
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Board Chair DaCosta and Board
Member Turner giving the forecast
for the 2023-2024 school year!
We ended the week recognizing
84 of our 2023 Summer
Graduates!
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2023-2024 Enrollment Data
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Warm Body Count
• August 11, 2023
• Total – 80,470
• Elementary – 37,364
• Middle – 15,645
• High – 22,533
• Specialty – 4,933
NOTE: 1,272 Below Projection of 81,747
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Comparison of last year (2022) and current (2023) warm body count
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Beginning School Enrollment Forecast, 2023
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Staffing
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Progress Made...
• 259 full-time teacher vacancies
• 9 Part-time teacher vacancies
• **HR has added additional onboarding sessions and Public Safety has extended
hours for fingerprinting
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Transportation
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Ridership
Daily Student Ridership Counts
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Morning Afternoon AM PM Grand
Region PreK ES MS HS PreK ES MS HS Total Total Total
1 2876 2091 2252 3758 3152 2187 7,219 9,097 16,316
2 1197 1141 1012ICS 223 3161 2437 2811 3,350 8,632 11,982
3-Graves 1106 936 817 1215 859 970 2,859 3,044 5,903
3-Sanders 635 312 319 507 369 432 1,266 1,308 2,574
4-Graves 1425 977 1301 1349 1231 934 3,703 3,520 7,223
5 767 807 817 813 828 1012 2,391 2,653 5,044
6 1134 1060 978 1162 867 906 3,172 2,935 6,107
7 1008 1201 894 964 1188 867 3,103 3,019 6,122
Central 1 21 229 60 123 28 308 108 145 433 561 994
Central2 28 808 615 861 28 808 615 861 2,312 2,284 4,596
Total 49 11,185 9,200 9,374 56 14,045 11,654 11,125 29,808 37,053 66,861
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Learning/Growth Opportunities
• Special needs transportation -
• Central 1-several concerns with ride times being too long especially out
of Coralwood.
• Some parents reporting the length of time on the bus.
• Total of 6 routes remain without drivers.
• One area report concerns about longer routes.
• McKinney Vento requests are continuing to increase.
• Multiple areas are still experiencing first-week corrections, modifications,
and additions to transportation.
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Security Upgrades
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EVOLV WEAPONS DETECTION SYSTEM
• Launched using a staggered approach
• Provided on-site technical support
• 10-12 schools per day
• Based on geographic location of schools
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EVOLV WEAPONS DETECTION SYSTEM
GO LIVE SCHOOLS
• Monday, August 7 th,
• Dunwoody High/Peachtree Middle
• Druid Hills High/Druid Hills Middle
• Stone Mountain High/Stone Mountain Middle / Elizabeth Andrews
• Stephenson High/Stephenson Middle
• Columbia High/Columbia Middle
• Tuesday, August 8 th, These schools were chosen by Public Safety based on their geographic locations
• Cross Keys High/Sequoyah Middle to make it more convenient for the Evolv technicians to support the high and
• Lakeside High/Henderson Middle
• Clarkston High/Freedom Middle middle schools on the same day.
• MLK JR High/Salem Middle
• Towers High/Bethune Middle
Chamblee Middle and School Re-visits were scheduled on Friday, August 11th.
• Wednesday, August 9 th
• Chamblee High
• Tucker High/Tucker Middle
• Redan High/Redan Middle School / Champion Theme
• Miller Grove High/Miller Grove Middle
• Cedar Grove High/Cedar Grove Middle
• Thursday, August 10th
• Southwest DeKalb/Chapel Hill Middle
• McNair High/McNair Middle
• Lithonia High/Lithonia Middle
• Arabia Mountain High/DeKalb Tech South
• DeKalb School of the Arts
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CENTEGIX
• Training
• Building Leaders and Select Team Members
• Campus Security; SROs; Administrators;
• Local Staff - Schools and Centers
• Devices/ Cards
• Scanned and Distributed to all schools
• Distribution to Central Office In Process (expected completion 8/22/23)
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