Amana Academy West Atlanta Information Session

5601 North Allen Road Southeast,Mableton GA 30126

18 November, 2021

Description

We look forward to hosting you for one of our in-person information sessions at the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Headquarters. Now enrolling students in grades K-3 for the 2022-2023 school year. Our tuition-free public charter school provides an innovative, hands-on STEM-based approach that's rooted in the Harvard-based EL Education model. Amana Academy, a Fulton County public charter school serving 750 students, is the first K-8 Certified STEM School in Georgia. Founded on the principles of stewardship and responsibility, the school is incorporated in the state of Georgia as a non-profit charter school and is located in Alpharetta, Georgia.  Amana’s unique set of educational approaches centers on the Harvard-based Expeditionary Learning model and is focused on fulfilling Amana’s mission of preparing students for high academic achievement beyond what they think possible, so that they become active contributors to building a better world. Amana Academy has been recognized as a finalist in the STEM Day Activity category for the Technology Association of Georgia’s 2015 STEM Education Awards, and this year is nominated in two categories - Middle School Program and STEM School Outreach. In 2011 the school was named Georgia Charter School of the Year by the Coca-Cola Foundation, and it received a STEM Education Dissemination Award by the Georgia Department of Education in 2012. The school was also ranked the #1 Middle School in Georgia in 2010 by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, and awarded an Annie E. Casey Foundation Grant, among many other honors and awards for its commitment to environmental education and for its pioneering Arabic language program. Amana Academy students reside primarily in Alpharetta and Roswell and the school is open to all students who are eligible to attend Fulton County Public Schools during the specified open enrollment period without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, disabling condition, or English proficiency. Amana Academy is a proud member of the Georgia Charter Schools Association and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI). For more information, visit www.amanaacademy.org or 285 South Main Street, Alpharetta GA 30009.