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Barack H. Obama Elementary
Magnet School of Technology

Dekalb County Schools

Admin Team
Book Fair
Broadcast Team
Employees of the Year
Soccer team
Track Team
Deirdre Pierce reading to students
Holiday Program
Holiday Program
Winter STEAM Night
STEM Trip to Nashville
Partners Donate to School

Upcoming Events

Dec 9

Book Fair

7:30 AM - 1:30 PM (on 12/13) Read More..
Dec 10

Family Literacy Night

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Read More..
Dec 11

Area 3 Elementary Band and Orchestra Performance

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Read More..
Dec 17

December Parent Tech Cafe

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Read More..
Dec 17

Holiday Musical Performance Featuring 3rd grade students

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Read More..
Dec 23

Winter Break

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Mission & Vision

The vision of the DeKalb County School District is to inspire our community of learners to achieve educational excellence. Our mission is to ensure student success, leading to higher education, work, and life-long learning. We are making this vision and mission a reality – every day, in every classroom throughout the District.

Through community forums, focus groups, listening sessions, and more, we have engaged our stakeholders, refined our objectives, honed our procedures, and formulated a robust, highly-structured yet agile and adaptive strategic plan. We are pleased with the progress we have made thus far, and excited about the future – of our District, our community, and, most importantly, the 100,000+ students who daily bring to us their limitless potential.

The District has created performance measures, targets, and initiatives to ensure success in each goal area. A monitoring and data collection process has been developed, and rigorous progress check procedures have been implemented. At the local level, on-going training sessions are offered to all principals in order to support the work of aligning, refining, monitoring, and evaluating the continuous improvement efforts of each individual school.

As a community of learners, we are committed to excellence in everything we do – within the classroom and throughout the District. This continuous improvement process permeates each aspect of our Strategic Plan, and we are honored to partner with you to make it a reality for all.