The top reported proficiency rate is 47% in English language arts. The lowest is 3% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on State Specialty Schools Ii- Genesis Innovation Academy-girl
State Specialty Schools II, which operates Genesis Innovation Academy for Girls, is a single-gender charter district serving Fulton County through a K-11 model centered on one school. The school recently expanded from an elementary and middle school program into a full K-12 pathway, launching a high school program that offers over thirty AP courses and access to college credit as early as ninth grade. The high school curriculum emphasizes the E5 framework, blending engineering, economics, expression, ethics, and entrepreneurship with project-based and culturally relevant instruction. This transition to a longer continuum allows families to commit to a single-gender educational model without needing to seek a different placement at the high school level.
The enrollment is small, distributed across kindergarten through eleventh grade, with the student body predominantly Black, and a smaller Hispanic population. Free-and-reduced-price lunch rates and data on students receiving special education services or identified as English learners were not available in the data provided.
Academic proficiency shows uneven results across subjects and grade levels. English language arts proficiency is the strongest area at roughly mid-range overall, with particularly solid performance in fifth grade. Math proficiency is lower on average, with a notable drop at the sixth-grade level and weakness that persists through seventh grade before recovering somewhat in eighth grade. Science proficiency at fifth and eighth grades falls below ELA across both grades. Social studies proficiency in eighth grade is very low and a parent may want to look into the school's approach and support in that subject. The data spans only one school year, so longer-term trends are not yet available to assess whether these results reflect the school's typical performance or a transition period related to the high school expansion.
The district's overall proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades places it above the midpoint among Fulton County's districts. Chronic absenteeism is notably low, well above the midpoint in the county, suggesting strong student engagement or attendance support. Per-pupil current spending is in the upper half of the middle range for county districts, indicating above-average investment in school operations.
The high school launch is still in its inaugural phase, and grade nine through eleven enrollment figures show no high school students yet in the tested data or grade-band reporting, which likely reflects timing between the expansion and the data collection cycle. A parent considering this school for a long-term pathway should verify current high school enrollment size, the maturity of AP offerings, and the school's track record on college placement and standardized assessments at the secondary level, since the high school program is very new and full performance data is not yet available here.
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