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DeKalb Dominates High School Suspension List

The county has five of metro Atlanta's top 10 high schools with the most suspensions.

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Five DeKalb County schools have among metro Atlanta’s highest number of high school suspensions, according to a new database compiled by the AJC.

The database measures disciplinary actions in the DeKalb, Cobb, Clayton, Fulton and Gwinnett county school systems, as well as the cities of Atlanta, Buford, Decatur and Marietta systems.

It also measures the number of detentions, suspensions and other disciplinary actions.

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Here are metro Atlanta’s 10 high schools with the most suspensions:

  1. Meadowcreek High School (Gwinnett): 2566
  2. Columbia High School (DeKalb): 1649
  3. Martin Luther King, Jr. High School (DeKalb): 1161
  4. McNair High School (DeKalb): 1049
  5. Miller Grove High School (DeKalb): 941
  6. Douglass High School (APS): 882
  7. Forest Park High School (Clayton): 840
  8. Norcross High School (Gwinnett): 773
  9. Towers High School (DeKalb): 755
  10. Dacula High School (Gwinnett): 721

You can the AJC’s full searchable database by clicking here.

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