Thank you for visiting the Rome City Schools Website. It is a pleasure to serve
as the superintendent of Rome City Schools. I have been associated with Rome
City Schools for twenty-six years and have chosen to remain in Rome because of
our outstanding school system. Rome City Schools is a very unique public school
system. Our teachers recognize and address the needs of individual learners to
maximize their full learning potential. All of our student class sizes meet or
are below the state maximum class size. Outstanding teachers and smaller class
sizes allow for wonderful opportunities to work with students in small groups,
or one on one to address individual needs and interests of students.
Student achievement is the highest of priorities for the Rome City School System
and our outstanding results on the state and national level prove this to be
true. East Central Elementary, Elm Street Elementary, and West End Elementary
have all been recognized as a Georgia School of Excellence. East Central and
West End have earned this honor twice within the last ten years! On the secondary
level, both Rome Middle School and Rome High School have also received the Georgia
School of Excellence Award. The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement
has recently recognized Rome Middle School with the Silver Award for academic
improvement and East Central Elementary with the Platinum Award for sustained
academic excellence. On the national level, Main Elementary was named a National
Blue Ribbon School in 2006, and East Central Elementary received the National
Blue Ribbon recognition in 2008! We are very proud of these accomplishments.
Rome City Schools has a rich academic curriculum that offers foreign language
opportunities in French, Spanish, and German beginning in the seventh grade.
The Rome Middle School curriculum also offers gifted and honors classes in mathematics
and English Language Arts. At Rome High School, students may choose from three
different endorsement programs; a tech prep endorsement, a college-prep endorsement,
and a college-prep advanced endorsement with 17 advanced placement courses available
for college credit! In addition to outstanding academics, Rome Middle School
and Rome High School have exceptional, award winning athletic and fine arts programs
to further engage our students.
All of our schools are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools and by the Georgia Accrediting Commission. Rome City Schools consistently
perform at or higher than the state average on state mandated tests. Rome High
School students have scored above the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude
Test (SAT) for the past ten years. For 2008-2009 the national average score for
the SAT was 1509. In that same year, Rome High School had 100 college preparatory
students take the SAT and their average score was 1585! This is 76 points above
the national average and 125 points above Georgia’s average! This places
Rome City Schools with the 3rd highest SAT average of any school system in Georgia
for 2009. Rome City Schools had the highest SAT average in 2007 with an average
of 1621! Rome City Schools is an excellent educational choice for students and
parents.
We invite you to join the outstanding programs of Rome City Schools!
Sincerely,
Gayland Cooper
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