FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Lou Ann Lardy
Coordinator of School/Community Relations for Colquitt County Schools
(229) 890-6235
[email protected]
Attendance Gains To Be Applauded
R.B. Wright Elementary earned the prestigious honor of having the
highest student attendance for the 2004-05 school year with 97.2%.
Willie J. Williams Middle received the award for greatest improvement in
student attendance. Student attendance at Williams Middle has increased
by 2.5% taking them from 92.9% in 2003-04 to 95.4% in 2004-2005.
Thanks to the efforts of teachers, parents, and school staff members,
student attendance over the three year period from 2002-03 to 2004-2005
has increased for all thirteen schools. For the school system to have a
2.2% increase over that time period is certainly significant and maybe
phenomenal. Translate that increase into students, and it means on any
given day in School Year 2004-05 about 176 more students (or eight
classrooms of students) were in attendance than in School year 2002-03.
(L to R) Board Chairman, Roy
Reeves with RB Wright Principal,
Mark Bell
“Continued efforts to increase the student attendance in Colquitt County
Schools are paying significant dividends,” stated Leonard McCoy,
Colquitt County School Superintendent.
(L to R)Williams Principal, Scott
Michie with Board Chairman, Roy
Reeves
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