The Coweta County School District is the primary education system in

Coweta County Coweta County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of Metro Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 146,158. The county seat is Newnan. Coweta County is included in the Atlanta-S ...

, Georgia, United States. Its headquarters are an antebellum building on Jackson Street (

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) at Sprayberry Road in

Newnan Newnan is a city in Metro Atlanta and the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia, about southwest of Atlanta. Its population was 42,549 at the 2020 census, up from 33,039 in 2010. History Newnan was established as county seat of Coweta Coun ...

, Georgia. Coweta County is the 9th-fastest-growing county in Georgia and the 26th-fastest-growing in the country. The school system has grown from 9,210 students in 1984 to over 22,000 students in 2007.Coweta County School System
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Overview

The school system operates eighteen elementary schools, six middle schools and three high schools, serving an area of with approximately 22,000 students and 1,200 teachers.Local School Directory - Coweta County School District
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Elementary schools

* Arbor Springs Elementary * Arnco-Sargent Elementary * Atkinson Elementary * Brooks Elementary * Canongate Elementary * Eastside Elementary * Elm Street Elementary * Grantville Elementary * Jefferson Parkway Elementary * Moreland Elementary * Newnan Crossing Elementary * Northside Elementary * Poplar Road Elementary * Ruth Hill Elementary * Thomas Crossroads Elementary * Western Elementary * Welch Elementary * White Oak Elementary * Willis Road Elementary

Middle schools

* Arnall Middle School * Blake Bass Middle School * East Coweta Middle School * Evans Middle School * Lee Middle School * Madras Middle School * Maggie Brown Middle School * Smokey Road Middle School * Central Education Center (CEC) - 8th Grade Academy

High schools

Newnan High School Newnan High School (NHS) is a public high school in southwestern Coweta County, Georgia, United States. It is located south of Newnan's historic downtown district. NHS is the oldest of the three Coweta County School System high schools. Founde ...

East Coweta High School East Coweta High School (ECHS) is a public high school located in Coweta County, Georgia, United States. It serves about 3,300 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Coweta County School System. It is the second oldest high school in the county. Histo ...

* Northgate High School * Central Education Center (CEC) * Winston Dowdell Academy

Controversies

Board member's participation in Capitol insurrection

Roughly a week after the

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at the U.S. Capitol, it was revealed Coweta school board member Linda Menk had attended the rally in Washington, D.C. Menk, after facing backlash from the community, refused to resign from her position, and urged her fellow board members that October to leave the Georgia School Boards Association after its parent organization, the National School Boards Association, sent a letter to the Biden presidential administration urging an investigation into the "growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation."

References

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External links

Coweta County School System
School districts in Georgia (U.S. state) Education in Coweta County, Georgia