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Hightower Elementary

Dekalb County Schools

Independent Learner Day Tuesday, November 5th Students return Wednesday, November 6th
Hightower Mascot Ollie
Embrace the Magic of Learning 2024-2025 School Theme
Teacher of the Year Lauman
Hightower Teacher of the Year Mrs. Lauman
Hightower Elementary Elementary Explorers Mascot Ollie

Upcoming Events

Nov 19

Thanksgiving Luncheon for Students/Parents in Pre-K - 2nd Grade

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Nov 22

Progress Reports Issued/Los informes de progreso del alumno

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Nov 25

Thanksgiving Break-No School/Descanso de Acción de Gracias-No hay clases

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Dec 23

Winter Break-No School/Vacaciones de invierno-No Hay Clases

No school Monday, December 23rd - Monday January 6th, 2025.  Students return to school on Tuesday, January 7th, 2025.
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Latest News

Parent Right to Know Letters
Parent Right to Know Letters
The Elementary  & Secondary Education Act requires school districts to notify parents of their right to know the professional qualifications of the classroom teachers who instruct their child(ren).

 
We Are A Uniform School!
We Are A Uniform School!
 ALL students are ENCOURAGED to wear uniforms!
 
 

Mission & Vision

The vision of the DeKalb County School District is to inspire our community of learners to achieve educational excellence. Our mission is to ensure student success, leading to higher education, work, and life-long learning. We are making this vision and mission a reality – every day, in every classroom throughout the District.

Through community forums, focus groups, listening sessions, and more, we have engaged our stakeholders, refined our objectives, honed our procedures, and formulated a robust, highly-structured yet agile and adaptive strategic plan. We are pleased with the progress we have made thus far, and excited about the future – of our District, our community, and, most importantly, the 100,000+ students who daily bring to us their limitless potential.

The District has created performance measures, targets, and initiatives to ensure success in each goal area. A monitoring and data collection process has been developed, and rigorous progress check procedures have been implemented. At the local level, on-going training sessions are offered to all principals in order to support the work of aligning, refining, monitoring, and evaluating the continuous improvement efforts of each individual school.

As a community of learners, we are committed to excellence in everything we do – within the classroom and throughout the District. This continuous improvement process permeates each aspect of our Strategic Plan, and we are honored to partner with you to make it a reality for all.