Daniell Middle School Ranked in Top 1% of Most Diverse Middle Schools in America and Top 10% of Best Public Middle Schools in America

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an article on Monday, August 14, 2017 titled "These Cobb schools are some of the best in Georgia", which highlighted Niche's latest rankings. According to Niche, Daniell Middle School is ranked in the top 10.4% (2,393 of 23,000) of best public middle schools in America and in the top 0.8% (215 of 24,708) most diverse public middle schools in America. In Cobb County, Niche ranks Daniell as the #1 most diverse public middle school. The teachers at Daniell have ranked in the top 13.9% of the best public middle school teachers in America and in the top 6.9% of the best public middle school teachers in the Atlanta area. Click here to see the complete ratings of Daniell Middle School from Niche's 2018 Best Schools. Click here to read the article by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Parent/Teacher Conferences Coming This Month

Conference Week is the week of October 16. We want to make it easier to sign-up for your meeting with your child's advocate. This year we will be using Sign-Up Genius to make setting up your conference date and time hassle free. Just use the links below to access your student’s advocate’s sign-up page. Your child should be able to provide you with the teacher that is their advocate, but don't hesitate to call us if we can assist in any way. We can be reached at 678-594-8048.

For parents new to middle school, during conference week you meet with just one of your child's teachers as opposed to all seven of them at the same time. At Daniell, this year families will meet with each child's adult advocate. Although each advocate is a teacher of one of the students classes they may not be able to answer detailed questions about certain classes your child may be enrolled. So, as always, if you have specific questions about your child's performance in a particular course, please call our counseling team to set up a time to meet just with that particular teacher.

During Conference Week your meeting with the advocate will be to review your child's overall performance and academic goals for the year, give messages from a particular teacher of your child if needed, discuss atttendance and involvment, and begin talking to you about preparation for your child to be in high school. See you the week of October 16!

Solar Eclipse Activities Planned for Extended School Day

As you may have already heard, due to the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, the Cobb County School District will delay dismissal of elementary, middle and high school students by 45 minutes. Middle schools will be dismissed at 5:00 pm. With the extra time we will have with our students on this day, our staff has prepared a lesson and viewing opportunity for the eclipse and will also be starting our advocacy kick-off.

During the advocacy kick-off students will meet their personal adult advocate who will be working with them the rest of the school year. This person will conduct the child's parent conferences, monitor attendance, encourage school involvement, provide couse advice in relation to high school preparation, serve as a trusted adult, and promote increased student achievement.

In regard to the solar eclipse, the peak time to experience the solar eclipse falls during our regularly scheduled elementary schooldismissal time.  Since student safety is always our first priority we will start the day on time and delay dismissal to ensure that neither students nor employees are on the roadways during the time of the eclipse.  Subsequently, high schools and middle schools will delay dismissal as well. Parents are welcome to pick-up their child at the typical dismissal time if needed. School will be dismissed at 5:00pm on this day.

Our Science Department has prepared a lesson for the day of the eclipse to make the experience memorable for our students. They have also ordered the approved eclipse safety glasses for all students. In preparation for the event, each day during the week of August 14 students will receive mini lessons during homeroom. A signed permission slip must be returned in order to participate in the activity. Please ensure your child returns their form to participate in the outdoor fieldtrip. Should rain or overcast occur, students will watch the eclipse via live broadcast from NASA.

For more information regarding the solar eclipse visit the National Weather Service at http://www.weather.gov/sgf/SolarEclipse.

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