Public
Schools offer advanced courses, gifted programs, vocational
programs, foreign languages, and art and music. Extracurricular
activities such as scholars bowl, math teams, public speaking
forums and debate teams have earned this area nationwide attention
There are two high schools,
three middle schools, 12 elementary schools and alternative
high schools. USA TODAY has cited the Decatur system after
its students achieved the top 10 percent in test scores. Academic
teams rank at the state and national levels, and graduating
seniors get scholarship offers from colleges and universities
across the nation. |