Please let us know how CMS is doing with promoting successful, healthy relationships between parents, students, and staff. 

Engaging with families to learn from them about their children’s language use and development is at the core of language-focused family engagement.

These resources listed, in English and Spanish, provide information and ACCESS assessment materials that can be a great support to families of English Language Learners. 

Parent Resources: Georgia Classroom

Downloadable fun activities, model lessons, and digital learning plans for parents to help students build skills.

Georgia Classroom 

A group of parents selected to provide input on policy, projects, and materials impacting Georgia students and families.

Free tutoring sessions for students powered by certified Georgia teachers.

The Georgia Department of Education is committed to supporting the whole child, including student health and wellbeing. The agency's Student Health and Wellbeing team develops supports and guidance that focus on the application of services and resources to the betterment of student wellbeing. Community partners, parents, and educators work together to ensure students are ready to learn and be successful by providing safe, supportive, and welcoming learning environments and addressing non-academic barriers to learning such as healthcare access, hearing/vision loss, bullying, and suicide and abuse prevention. 

Call 1-800-273-8255 for help or visit or Hotline Numbers page for more resources!

Georgia families and teachers can access K-12 resources produced by Georgia teachers that are aligned to the Georgia Learning Standards. 

The Georgia Department of Education provides a set of both formative and summative assessments that work together to provide insights to improve teaching and learning. Different stakeholders need different data – the right data – to meet their needs. For example, classroom teachers need detailed, real-time data to inform their work with students while leaders and policymakers need aggregated, high-level data to inform decisions about policy and instructional programs. This balanced approach to assessment and accountability provides data for a variety of stakeholders to inform decisions, whether at a policy, district, school, or classroom level to support the improvement of Georgia's education system. 

On this page you can learn more about home schooling in Georgia. However, please note that the Georgia Department of Education has a very limited role with home school programs operating in the state. Pursuant to state law O.C.G.A. 20-2-690, the Georgia Department of Education only has authority to collect and maintain the Declaration of Intent to home school.​ The Declaration of Intent is the formal document that a family submits when beginning a home study program and then annually thereafter by September 1, for each year they continue the home school program.

Here you can electronically submit the annual declaration of intent to home school, download a declaration of intent to home school form that you may complete and return by fax or email. We also provide answers to commonly asked questions.

Powered by the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE),  online courses for students from the Georgia Virtual School, credit recovery, professional learning, PartnerUP for districts and schools, and  GaTutor virtual tutoring program for Georgia high-school students. GaVL leverages online education and works with teachers, parents, schools, and districts to equip and empower every student for success in education and beyond.

All students must have a yearly Sports Physical on file at their school to participate in any school sports activities.  View to print.