We’ve been studying what the Atlanta Public Schools Demographic Study and specifically, the proposed new boundary lines for each of the four options would mean to Buckhead Schools. Of the five Buckhead Elementary Schools, Garden Hills will be one of the most effected and when looking at the maps of how each option would potentially change the attendance boundaries…the new Garden Hills boundaries are pretty complex. Here is an attempt to clarify what each of the 4 options would mean to your neighborhood if you are in the Garden Hills School District currently:
Option 1
- Lindridge Martin Manor will be redistricted to E. Rivers Elementary
- The rest of Pine Hills will be added to Garden Hills so that the entire neighborhood of Pine hills will attend Garden Hills Elementary instead of being split between Smith and Garden Hills (this is the same for all 4 options)
Option 2
- Peachtree Heights East will now be part of E. Rivers instead of Garden Hills Elementary
- The Section of Garden Hills, south of E. Wesley, will be rezoned to Rivers
- Half of the Lindbergh/Morosgo neighborhood from Sidney Marcus south will go to Rivers leaving the half north of Sidney Marcus in the Garden Hills Elementary District
- The northern part of Pine Hills that was in Sarah Smith will now be in Garden Hills
Option 3 (take a deep breath and concentrate)
- Here we have the introduction of the “New Northside Elementary School”
- The rest of Pine Hills that was Sarah Smith will now be Garden Hills (all options reflect this)
- The East-West Divider of Peachtree Heights East and Garden Hills, South of E. Wesley, is Acorn Ave. All of Peachtree Heights will be in Rivers Elementary and the portion of the Garden Hills Neighborhood that is south of E. Wesley and East of Acorn will go to the New Northside School.
- Lindridge Martin Manor will be redistricted to the New Northside School
- Half of the Lindbergh/Morosgo from Sidney Marcus south will go to the New Northside School leaving the half north of Sidney Marcus in the Garden Hills Elementary District
- The part of Peachtree Heights West (West Side of Peachtree) that is north of W. Wesley and South of West Paces Ferry, and East of the Cherokee and where it turns in Slaton, will now be part of Garden Hills.
Option 4
- From a Garden Hills Elementary Boundary perspective, this appears to be exactly the same as Option 3
Interactive Map of all 4 Options
Official Maps at APS Demographic Study Page
Interactive Map of all of the 48 Buckhead Neighborhoods