State DOE recognizes math, literacy leader schools; several from Hall Co. included

Several Hall County schools have been recognized by the Georgia Department of Education (GDOE) as Math Leaders and Literacy Leaders for the 2023-2024 academic year.

This honor highlights the Hall County School District’s (HCSD) commitment to academic excellence and dedication to student success in mathematics and literacy, according to GDOE.

Click here to see the list of Math Leaders schools in Hall County and the rest of Georgia:

Math Leaders 2024 Press Release Format.pdf

And here to see the local schools that made the list of Literacy Leader Schools:

Literacy Leaders.pdf

In each case, you’ll also find the schools in other parts of Georgia that were recognized. Statewide, 624 schools were recognized as Math Leaders, and 324 schools were honored as Literacy Leaders.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.