Freshmen Academy

The Freshmen Academy at Dacula High School is a program that provides opportunities for teachers to cross-collaborate, interventions to daily routines, and exposure to mainstream schedules through electives. Students in Freshmen Academy have one Assistant Principal and one counselor, all working closely with teachers and students.

What are the benefits of having a Freshmen Academy?

• Increase student achievement
• Increase student attendance
• Decrease student discipline incidents
• Encourage student involvement and participation in school activities and functions
• Aid with social transition to the high school environment
• Establish positive connections and transitions for incoming ninth-grade students with a specific set of teachers
• Provide early identification and intervention of risk behavior
• Increase class identity and cohesiveness