Riverwood International Charter School is ranked 57th within Georgia. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at Riverwood International Charter School is 56%. The total minority enrollment is 65%, and 30% of students are economically disadvantaged. Riverwood International Charter School is 1 of 18 high schools in the Fulton County Schools.
We wondered in this interview if a charter school was part of the Fulton County School system and it is, but it is not subject to all the regulations as any other public school. The difference is that parents from any district can send their child there, just like a private school. Riverwood is one of many in the USA that are offering school choice so students dont have to stay where they’live; they can migrate here and away from the failing school in their neighborhood. .
This is controversial because these students move their more accomplished scholastic talents to the charter school and the neighborhood school loses those good grades and skews even lower, which can cost federal education dollars. This is the most elementary ssue in a debate that has gone on for a couple of decades. So this is a school that can in effect select kids from anywhere to play football (recruit), they’re not bound by a district. Like Blessed Trinity, a private Catholic School. And similarly, Riverwood is Class AAAAA.
The school is doing well for itself. In the summer of 2020, Riverwood demolished it’s original building and moved into the pictured facility, which, appropriately for Georgia, was built around its football field.
Anyway, South Forsyth travels to Riverwood Friday night, and here is the correspondcing Coaches Cornner, with SOFO Head Football Coach Troy Morris joining Greg Golden and Doug Thomas to discuss the season’s first official road trip.
Above is the Coaches Corner interview with Coach Morris, Greg and Doug.
If you want a better ride to the airport, Ride With Eric. Eric Meckes, a driver buddy of Greg’s.
