State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox today announced the winners of the 2nd annual Superintendent's Distinguished Achievement Awards. These awards honor schools for high achievement and the greatest improvement on state curriculum tests. A certificate is being sent to the winning schools acknowledging their achievement. "We are honoring schools that showed the greatest improvement and highest achievement on our state tests," said State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox. "These awards are just a small way of saying 'thank you' for the hard work put in by our teachers, students and school communities. Congratulations to all the winners!"
  

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The Superintendent's Distinguished Achievement Awards are based on the performance of students on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT), the Georgia High School Graduation Tests (GHSGT), the End-of-Course Tests (EOCT) and the state Writing Tests. These awards acknowledge schools in two categories:

   - IMPROVEMENT: The ten schools in each honored subject area and grade that had the greatest improvement in the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards.

   - ACHIEVEMENT: The ten schools in each honored subject area and grade that had the highest percentage of students score in the exceeds category.

• Chicopee Woods Elementary School—CRCT 1^st Grade Improved Reading
• Lula Elementary School-- CRCT 1^st Grade Improved Reading
• Tadmore Elementary School—CRCT 2^nd Grade Improved Mathematics
• Sugar Hill Elementary School—CRCT 3^rd Grade Improved Reading
• Myers Elementary School—CRCT 4^th Grade Improved Reading
• Flowery Branch High School—EOCT Achievement Biology
• Flowery Branch High School—EOCT Improvement Biology
• Chestatee High School—EOCT Improvement Biology
• East Hall High School—EOCT Improvement Grade 9 Literature and Composition
• Lanier Career Academy—EOCT Improvement American Literature
• Lanier Career Academy—GHSGT Improvement Mathematics
• Lanier Career Academy—GHSGT Improvement Science