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Moultrie, GA -- Students from Westover Comprehensive High School faired well at the regional Skills USA competition in Moultrie, bringing home several top finishes. As a team, W...

The Westover Marching Patriots Band have been invited to participate in the 2024 Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C. Learn how you can help get them there, in the video.

ATLANTA - Grady Rachel, a teacher with the Dougherty County School System’s Career, Technical and Agricultural Education Department, has been selected to participate in an ex...

Whether its coming in early to start prepping for breakfast or cleaning up after lunch, our school nutrition workers do it all (and do it very well). They are our school...

ALBANY, Ga. – The Dougherty County School System (DCSS) today announced that its high school graduation rate for 2023 was 88%, an increase over the 87.13% rate from 2022...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Dougherty County School System Logistical Services Department has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Annual Achievement of Excellence in Procurement® (AEP) from...

ALBANY, Ga. – For the second time in 17 years, Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet School has been named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. This pr...

ALBANY - Three elementary schools in the Dougherty County School System have been named "Literacy Leaders" by the Georgia Department of Education. Lamar Reese Magnet School of t...

ALBANY, Ga. – Dr. Jennifer Clark and Kimberly Holsey, 8th grade science teachers at Robert A. Cross Middle Magnet School, were honored by Dougherty County School System Superinte...

ALBANY - The Dougherty County School System's director of Career, Technical and Agriculture Education (CTAE) Department was recently part of an esteemed panel invited to speak on ...

ALBANY, GA – In a significant move reflecting their commitment to fiscal responsibility and community welfare, the Dougherty County Board of Education unanimously voted to adopt...

ALBANY, GA - Dougherty High Head Football Coach Johnny Gilbert has been named as the district’s new Student Support Services Coordinator, following approval by the Dougherty ...

ALBANY, Ga.– Tuesday, in a ceremony at Merry Acres Middle School, Ms. Chateireya Fordham, a science teacher, was presented with a grant of $10,000 for her proposal for a high-te...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Westover Comprehensive High School Marching Patriot band has been invited to perform in the 2024 National Memorial Day Parade. Band Director Roy Eaddy rec...

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. -- The students and staff of Robert Harvey Elementary School were recognized by state educational leaders Tuesday for overall school improvement. Robert...

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - More than two dozen middle and high school students from the Dougherty County School System arrived in Costa Rica Sunday, the first stop in a seven-day lear...

ALBANY -- Leaders from across Dougherty County School System schools and programs gathered recently to learn about district priorities for the 2023-2024 school year. The theme...

ALBANY -- Albany Middle School Assistant Principal Martez Favis was named the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce's Young Professional of the Year during the Chamber's Annual Meetin...

ALBANY, Ga. -- Leadership at two Dougherty County School System schools is changing for the 2023-2024 school year, Superintendent Kenneth Dyer announced Tuesday. Dr. Sh...

ALBANY, Ga. -- Lake Park Elementary School First Grade Teacher Katherine McRee was named the Dougherty County School System’s district-wide Teacher of the Year for th...