Rate These Peachtree Corners Schools

The community has a selection of both public and private schools. Here's your chance to rate your favorite one.

Rate These Peachtree Corners Schools

The community has a selection of both public and private schools. Here's your chance to rate your favorite one.

There are some 2,000 + listings in the Peachtree Corners Patch Directory including businesses, restaurants, retailers and schools. It's a useful resource providing contact information, hours of operation and a write up on each ONE. And Patch readers have the opportunity to rate them on a scale of one to five with five stars being excellent and one star indicating a poor rating. Highlighted are Peachtree Corners schools grade schools that need your feedback. If you are familiar with one or more of the following, take a moment and give us your opinion. (Pre-schools are not included.) After clicking on the link to the school listing, look for "RATE THIS BUSINESS" directly below the school's write up and give us your feedback. Schools are …

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Federal Budget Cuts: Gwinnett Schools Could Lose Nearly $3.5 Million

The White House has released a state-by-state breakdown of what the budget cuts could mean. In Gwinnett County, school district officials say it means losing critical dollars for Title I programs.

Gwinnett County Public Schools officials have released a statement regarding the impending across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration. In the statement, GCPS Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks, said the cuts would cost the state's largest school district approximately $3.4 million, Title I monies, and allocations for special education. (Read the full statement below.) Earlier this month, board members Carole Boyce and Mary Kay Murphy traveled to Washington, D.C., to fight the budget cuts. And, now the White House has released a breakdown showing that teacher jobs and funding to education children with disabilities will be hampered. The cuts are slated to take effect Friday, March 1. In Georgia, according to the White House…

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County Spelling Bee Set for Saturday, Feb. 2

Gwinnett County elementary and middle school students will compete in the district spelling bee including students from Peachtree Corners schools.

Nearly 90 Gwinnett County students from 88 schools will compete at the district's spelling bee this Saturday, Feb. 2. The students are the spelling bee champions from their local elementary and middle schools. Pinckneyville Middle, Simpson, Peachtree and Berkeley Lake elementary schools will be represented. The competition will be held at Central Gwinnett High, located at 564 W. Crogan Street in Lawrenceville. It is sponsored by the Gwinnett County Association of Educators. Student participants will register from 7:15 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. At 8:30 a.m., the local school spelling winners will first compete in a written spelling bee contest. The top 12 spellers from the written bee then will compete in the public oral bee. Last year's bee …

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Simpson Elementary Receives 2012 National Blue Ribbon Award

The Peachtree Corners school was among seven Georgia public schools in the nation to be recognized.

On Tuesday, Simpson Elementary School was honored in Washington D.C. as one of the nation's 2012 Blue Ribbon Schools. The Peachtree Corners school was one of only seven Georgia public schools to receive the award - and the only Gwinnett County school to be recognized. A total of 314 schools across the nation were recognized in a ceremony that was held by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Each school that attended received a plaque and a flag to signify its status as a National Blue Ribbon School. "The Simpson community is thrilled that our school was named a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence," said Bron Gayna Schmit, the school's principal. "It is a great honor to be one of 269 schools selected from over 100,000 schools…

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NHS Students Average 1511 on 2012 SAT

GCPS SAT scores top state and national averages.

Gwinnett County Public School students have topped the state and national averages on all sections of the SAT test for 2012. According to a press release from the Gwinnett School System, students at Norcross High School scored an average of 1511 on the test, 501 in reading, 519 in Math and 491 in writing. Possible scores range from 200 to 800 on each section with a highest possible composite score of 2400. National SAT scores dipped, however state and local averages continued to improve. Test participation in Gwinnett County Public Schools has continued to increase along with test scores. In a press release from the school system CEO/Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks stated, “I am pleased with the progress our schools are making as a whole…

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Brooke Siskin

3:53 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

This is excellent! Way to go students at Norcross High   more ›

Simpson Elementary Named 2012 National Blue Ribbon School

The U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, announced on Friday that the Peachtree Corners school had been awarded the prestigious national title.

On Friday Simpson Elementary School was recognized as a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School. The Peachtree Corners school was one of only 269 schools across the nation to receive the prestigious national title. The recognition honors public and private K-12 schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students' levels of achievements, according to a press release by Gwinnett County Public Schools. The schools chosen for the title are recognized in one of two performance categories. Simpson received recognition in the "Exemplary High Performing" category. "This recognition affirms that setting high expectations for excellence in all areas of school life and focusing on teaching and …

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Wesleyan's Assistant Headmaster for Academic Affairs to Retire

Kathy Benson announced she will leave the private Peachtree Corners school after the end of the school year.

Wesleyan School students and staff will say goodbye to a long-time employee after the end of the 20121-13 school year. Kathy Benson, the school's Assistant Headmaster for Academic Affairs for the past 14 years announced this week that she is retiring. "Kathy has been a godsend over the past 14 years," said Headmaster Zach Young, "and there will be celebrations for her time her in the spring. I thought it would be nice to make the announcement to everyone now so she gets a full year of love from all of us and a round of applause prior to retirement." Benson began in 1998 as the Dean of Faculty, during her tenure she has played a key role in developing the K-12 curriculum, assisted in creating the Academic Council and establishing a …

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Retiring Simpson ES Teacher Honored

Kathy Russo was recognized by GCPS as the Georgia Future Problem Solving Program "Coach of the Year."

After nearly four decades in the classrom, Kathy Russo, retired from Simpson Elementary School at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. But before she closed the door to her classroom one last time, she was honored by Gwinnett County Public Schools for her work in coaching gifted education students for an annual competition called the "Georgia Future Problem Solving Program." Russo, who taught Gifted Advanced Content Mathematics and Intervention at the Peachtree Corners school, lead the students to a first place finish in the state competition this year. Her teaching career began 38 years ago, 22 of those years have been with GCPS. Russo was part of the inaugural staff at Simpson when it opened in 1993. She joined GCPS in 1990 as a special…

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Simpson Elementary Celebrates First Ever Earth Week

The Peachtree Corners school celebrates Earth Week with a dedication of two new recycling bins, a new birdhouse garden, Walk to School Day and daily Lorax "Unless" suggestions.

A sea of umbrellas peppered the roads leading to Simpson Elementary Wednesday as approximately 400 students and their parents braved the elements, walking to school in the rain, in an effort to show their support for the school's first ever Earth Week celebration. The Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Committee, part of Simpson's active PTA, drummed up the idea for Earth Week, in celebration of Earth Day, April 22 to increase sustainability awareness of the students and staff. Michelle Moebes, chair of the committee, and Mary Thomas, principal-in-training, were instrumental in planning the week long event which kicked off with a dedication and ribbon cutting of two new recycling bins. One is a single stream recycling bin which will now allow the …

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