85 Waddell St NE
Atlanta, GA 30307

It has been a terrible experience. My child hates this school. It is chaotic and tense. Kids are disrespectful. I feel sorry for the teachers. To make a bad year worse, my child was attacked by another kid without provocation. The behavior I expect from my child and what I think is fair for teachers to expect is not what they get from a fairly large contingency of the students. I am more than a little worried, and I am considering moving. The administration would like you to believe that they can blend the four schools, and everything is great. It is not! There is more shoving, harassing and intimidating than is officially reported. It feels like a powder keg.

I attended Grady for two years (junior and senior) after attending a DeKalb County high school for two years, and the change was unbelievable. Granted, I took 10 AP classes during my time at Grady so my view is not holistic, but I absolutely loved my two years at GHS. I had many, many amazing teachers (notably Nichols for AP Calculus and Pope for AP US History), and I was heavily involved with the school's theatre and chorus programs. Grady students are very passionate about their interests (of which there are many), and the growing culture of academic competitiveness did wonders for my grades. That being said, the administration is kind of a mess and the school is not without its problems, but if you don't go looking for trouble you probably won't run into any.

I am familar with this schol since 2000 exceedingly fast due to and influx of families moving into a very desirable area within the the city and the historic neighborhoods of Candler Park and Lake Claire. In the niflux, the school has lost alot of it's charm, diversity and personel attention. I"t now has too large of student body and class sizes without enough teacher aids possibly teachers having too many responsibilties. I would not recommend the school to the degree I once did unfortunatley.