Tucker High School
5036 Lavista Road, Tucker, GA, 30084-3500 - Map Map

School Overview:
Definition of Terms
Tucker High School
School Level High school
Grades Offered Grades 9 - 12
County Dekalb County, GA
Students & Faculty
Total Students 1535 students
% Male / % Female 51%  /  49%
Total Classroom Teachers 88 teachers
Students by Grade
Grade 9 - 501 students
Grade 10 - 412 students
Grade 11 - 329 students
Grade 12 - 293 students
This School
(GA) School Average
Teacher : Student Ratio 1:17 1:16
Students by Ethnicity
This School
(GA) School Average
% American Indian n/a n/a
% Asian 5% 2%
% Hispanic 4% 6%
% Black 67% 39%
% White 20% 52%
% Unknown 4 % 4%
Additional Student Information
This School
(GA) School Average
% Eligible for Free Lunch 39% 33%
% Eligible for Reduced Lunch 9% 7%
% Migrant Students Enrolled n/a n/a
School Performance:
(GA) Statewide Testing Performance
School Statewide Performance View Education Department Test Scores
School District:
School District Name Dekalb County School District
This School's Agency
(GA) District Average
Number of Schools Managed 148 7
Number of Students Managed 102,915 students 3,848 students
District Total Revenue $972,966,000 $34,253,000
District Expenditure $965,936,000 $34,226,000
District Revenue / Student $9,454 $8,902
District Expenditure / Student $9,386 $8,894
District Graduation Rates 70% 75%
In the News:
  • For Pearl, 'It's not personal, it's business' (Knoxville News Sentinel)
    posted on November 27, 2009 at 03:08:00 am
    There were times the Tennessee men's basketball practice sounded like anything but a holiday gathering Thursday morning.UT coach Bruce Pearl said that's because there's work to do with the No. 9 Vols.The Vols (4-1) play host to the College of Charleston (1-2) tonight (TV: CSS, 7 p.m.) at Thompson-Boling Arena"We're getting great leadership, and our veterans have bought into what we're doing ...
  • Former Tucker coach guilty of indecent liberties (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
    posted on November 18, 2009 at 05:11:16 am
    J.R. Tucker High School’s former football coach pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of taking indecent liberties with two teenage students. In a brief hearing in Henrico County Circuit Court, William Macgregor “Mac” Leighton, 31, acknowledged his guilt in months-long relationships with students 15 and 17. A prosecutor said the relationships consisted of the students sending Leighton scores ...
  • Former JR Tucker Coach Pleads Guilty to Indecent Liberties with Minor (CBS 6 Richmond)
    posted on November 17, 2009 at 06:21:10 pm
    RICHMOND - A former Henrico County high school football coach has pleaded guilty to charges of taking indecent liberties with students. Thirty-one-year-old William Macgregor "Mac" Leighton entered his plea to three counts Tuesday morning.
  • Ex-Tucker Coach Pleads Guilty To Indecent Liberties (WRIC 8 News Richmond)
    posted on November 17, 2009 at 05:03:14 pm
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A former Henrico County high school football coach has pleaded guilty to charges of taking indecent liberties with students. Thirty-one-year-old William Macgregor "Mac" Leighton entered
  • Former Tucker coach pleads guilty to indecent liberties with 2 students (NBC 12 Richmond)
    posted on November 17, 2009 at 04:48:11 pm
    RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - A former Henrico County football coach has pled guilty to several felonies. Former J.R. Tucker high school football coach William "Mac" Leighton, pleaded guilty to three counts of taking indecent liberties with female students, who were 15 and 17 years old at the time.
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School Notes:
  • Tucker High School is the only public high school in Tucker, an unincorporated section of DeKalb County, Georgia, and is operated by the DeKalb County School System.
  • The first community school in Tucker, a one room schoolhouse, was founded in the late 1880s. Within a short time, a larger school was needed, and a new three room schoolhouse was constructed around 1900, providing education through the eighth grade. Tucker’s population was growing rapidly, and this building also was quickly outgrown, the school spilling over into the nearby Methodist and Congregationalist churches. A new two-story antebellum style school building was soon built to house the burgeoning student body. By 1928, more space was again required, and a new building having twelve classrooms, an auditorium, offices, storage, and indoor restrooms was built. This was followed by a granite annex building in 1935, and an infill project joining the main building to the annex in 1937.
  • The 1950s saw a rapid growth in student enrollment, from 271 students in 1952 to 1,100 students by 1962. In 1963 the present building was dedicated, providing instructional space for 1,300 students.
  • A new building will be constructed starting in 2008 to replace the existing 1963 facility. The replacement facility will feature 81 instructional units and supporting spaces including a media center, language arts, science, social studies, math, speech, reading, and computer science labs, rooms for vocational, art, and music instruction, a gymnasium, kitchen and cafeteria, commons, auditorium, and guidance and administrative offices. Site work will include replacement of all sports fields, new entrances and exits from surrounding roads, and a new bus loop. The project is projected to cost over $66,000,000.00.
  • Demolition of the 1963 building began in July 2008, and by of September 2008, the Venable Gymnasium and the athletic locker rooms, band room, and chorus room located underneath it had been razed. Also demolished was the house at 5054 LaVista Road, whose property will now be part of the campus. As of January 2009, site work and placement of deep piles for the foundation system of the first phase of the new complex had begun on the site of the former gym and the parking lot to the south of the existing building. As of August 2009, the precast structure for the two-level parking garage, commons and administrative areas, and the Ninth Grade Academy building has been erected, and work on interiors has begun. Following the completion of the first phase of construction, the balance of the existing building will be demolished to make way for phase two. To compensate for instructional space lost to construction activities, an Educational Village was established on the baseball field at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year.
  • On August 2010, Tucker will become a charter school, with the other Dekalb County charter schools like Chamblee High.
  • Famous People / Awards and Recognitions
  • R&B singer Keri Hilson, Atlanta Falcons player Thomas Brown, Minnesota Vikings player Asher Allen, and John Oxendine, Georgia's Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner and 2010 candidate for Governor graduated in 1980, attended Tucker High School.
  • Tucker High School has received awards for its students and its teachers, including:
  • Dekalb County and Region IV Star Student
  • Dekalb Counselor of the Year
  • Georgia Gymnastics Coach of the Year
  • 2005 Dekalb County Gymnastics Champions
  • International Media Festival Winner
  • AAA State Basketball Champions
  • AAA Track Champions
  • AAAA State Basketball Champions (2007)
  • AAAA State football Champions (2008)
  • Tucker also boasts the fact that four of Georgia's Superintendents of Education were at one time part of the Tucker faculty.
  • Tucker recently has been found to contain large amounts of asbestos in the ceilings and walls, resulting in major renovations starting from 2005.
  • Tucker has also recently been named Dekalb County's most improved public high school for the 2009-2010 year.
  • Students
  • Over 90% of seniors attend postgraduate schools. 1
  • Feeder schools
  • The following elementary schools feed into Tucker High School [1]:
  • Brockett
  • Idlewood
  • Livsey
  • Midvale
  • Smoke Rise
  • Tucker Middle
  • Tucker Middle School is Tucker High School's feeder middle school.
  • Sources
  • 1. Tucker High School
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School Zip Code:
About This Zip Code (30084)
School Zip (30084)
(GA) State Average
Population (Approximate) 32,411 people 7,714,340 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree 46% 21%
Population Average Age 37 years old 33 years old
Average Household size 2.5 persons 2.5 persons
Median Household Income $53,814 $44,678
Avg. # of Rooms in Household 6.1 rooms 5.6 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure 33 years old 30 years old
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% Owning / % Renting 70% / 30% 66% / 34%
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4. East Dekalb Campus - 164 students - 3.9 mi. away - view location
5. East Dekalb Special Education Center - 428 students - 3.9 mi. away - view location
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