About Us
Students from the 4/5 class assemble the terra cotta warrior
Faculty and Staff
Atlanta School teachers are lifelong, creative learners who are devoted to educating children and passionately involved in their areas of expertise. They are committed to collaborating with students, parents, other teachers and members of the larger community. By example, they teach children that learning doesn’t end when formal education is completed.
Our flexible structure allows us to take advantage of the abundant talent in our community. Visiting storytellers, musicians, dancers, puppeteers, filmmakers, biologists, artists, poets and community leaders provide additional instruction and exposure to new ideas and skills.
Small is Beautiful
The Atlanta School currently enjoys a stable population of about 75 children, ranging from three years of age to ninth grade. Our student teacher ratio is 8:1, or only 4:1 if part-time teachers are counted.
The Atlanta School is small and will remain so. Our unique objectives are best realized in an intimate setting, where teachers and students know each other well and treat each other with kindness and respect.
A word about diversity
Diversity is both a goal and a resource at The Atlanta School. From the beginning, we have articulated our firm intention to make a place that values all contributions from students, faculty, administration and parents. Putting values into practice, the school allocates a considerable portion of its budget for tuition assistance, thus enhancing the diversity of the student body. The school spends considerable energy on diversity issues within the curriculum, in a community context and as they arise in interactions among individual students.
Student Achievements
One of the pleasures of running The Atlanta School is watching students initiate, develop and complete major projects. Here are just a few of our students’ accomplishments:
- Our students participate in the AIDS Walk. They have raised more money than any school in the United States and the school has placed third among all organizations -- including large corporations -- in Atlanta.
- Middle School students have traveled to Panama where, on the last trip, they participated in a 9 day Ocean to Ocean excursion.
- Partnering with 7Stages Theater, Middle School Students work as interns alongside theater professionals where they learn a variety of skills ranging from office management to technical theater and set design.
- Students in the upper elementary classes work once a month at the Atlanta Community Food Bank.
- Fourth and fifth grade students wrote, produced and performed The Power Plan, an original opera about power relations on the playground. This production was made possible by a grant from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
- With book artist Ruth Laxson, the fourth and fifth grade students wrote and printed at Nexus Press an original book based on their opera and collaborated on a billboard as part of a 1995 Arts Festival of Atlanta project.
- Students produced a volume of poetry with artist-in-residence Ronnog Seaberg.
- Students entered an Official Art Car in the International Art Car Parade, Houston.
- Students have performed in the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s Family Storytelling Series.
- Students in the third through sixth grades premiered PIGS! to sold-out audiences at 7 Stages Theater. This musical fable by Bonnie Pike and Michael Fauss was commissioned by the Atlanta School.