• U.S. News & World Report’s Top Schools 

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Our four magnet schools topped state and national rankings in the 2023 U.S. News and World Report. In addition, Lake Forest Hills Elementary School and Freedom Park K-8 School earned a Best Elementary School and Best Middle School badge after ranking in the organization’s 2024 list for the state of Georgia. The annual list reviews thousands of schools across the nation. 

• Distinction on Georgia’s AP Honor Schools List and 100+ AP Scholar Awards 

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RCSS schools have earned distinctions on the Georgia Department of Education’s Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Schools list every year for the past ten years. In addition, more than 100 students from across our school system were named AP Scholars during the 2023-2024 school year based on their AP exam scores and GPA.  

• Six RCSS Schools Named “Literacy Leaders”  

Six schools in the Richmond County School System (RCSS) were named "Literacy Leaders" by the Georgia Department of Education for exceptional achievement or growth in reading. Schools qualified for the distinction based on components of their Georgia Milestones English Language Arts (ELA) assessment scores.    

• Historic Improvements to Graduation Rate

Class of 2024 graduation rates continued a two-year trend of growth. More than 1,690 students graduated during the 2023-2024 school year, a 3.7% increase from the previous year that brings the four-year cohort graduation rate to 81.7%. Four schools exceeded the state graduation rate. 

• Title I Distinguished and Reward Schools 

C.T. Walker Traditional Magnet School and A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet School were named Distinguished Schools, and Richmond County Technical Career Magnet School (RCTCM) was named both a Distinguished and a Reward school in 2023. They are among the highest-performing 5% of Schoolwide and Targeted Assistance schools based on the combined English Language Arts (ELA) and math content mastery scores from statewide assessments taken during the 2022-23 school year.    

• CTAE Graduation Rate Surpasses State  

The RCSS graduation rate in Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE), Advanced Academic, World Language, and Fine Arts pathways surpassed the state-wide rate at 97.99% during the 2023-2024 school year.