Principals, legislators and Sandy Springs city officials gave updates about education, legislation, city infrastructure and more to members of the High Point Civic Association during its annual meeting on April 10.
High Point President Mary Ford started the meeting with an update about the organization, which includes residents and businesses south of I-285 and east of Roswell Road in Sandy Springs.
The association decided to continue its partnership with the Daffodil Project and honored the organization’s founder and president, Andrea Videlefsky. It also handed out two $3,000 scholarships to Riverwood High School students.
High Point also plans to hold its own fall festival, as well as a candidates’ forum in the fall for elections. Ford asked members of the association to volunteer their time to help with these projects.
Educators from schools that serve High Point students shared updates. High Point Elementary Principal Danielle Miller said enrollment at the school is a bit more than 700 students.
“We are literally bursting at the seams, which is a great thing. We have kids coming back from private schools coming to fourth and fifth grades,” Miller said. “Our Pre-K lottery this year had over 60 in-zone candidates when we’ve never even had more than 40.”
Thomas Garrett, principal of Ridgeview Charter Middle School, said that Ridgeview was named a Title One School of Excellence. Test scores are rising at Ridgeview just like at High Point Elementary, Garrett said.
Principal Kindra Smith of Riverwood High School said her school benefits from the work the elementary and middle schools do to prepare students. Riverwood has 82 scholars going to the University of Georgia this year. Another student is going to Yale. Smith expressed pride in the school’s 97.5% graduation rate.
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