Howard High School in
Bibb County School District is located in a racially and socioeconomically diverse community in a "rural fringe" region of middle Georgia, southeast of
Atlanta. It is a
Title I School. It serves students in grades 9 through 12, with a total student population of 1,210 students in the 2020-2021 school year, and a student-teacher ratio of 17.26. All students "are eligible to participate in the Free Lunch and Reduced-Price Lunch Programs under the
National School Lunch Act of 1946".
work-based learning,
English for Speakers of Other Languages, Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, and Career and Technology. HHS was the only high school in Bibb County in 2011 to make "Adequate Yearly Progress", a designation that determines whether schools meeti standards under the
No Child Left Behind Act. It relies on "test participation, academic achievement and other indicators, such as the attendance or graduation rates at a school". HHS received a rating of 3 stars (out of 4) in 2014. In 2022, "Howard High School was ranked no. 1 in Macon in 2022, with a 83% graduation rate, a 15.9 college readiness score, and an enrollment of 1,210. In the overall Georgia ranking, the school ranked no. 137." Georgia's School Grades report for 2020-2021 presented a performance snapshot of HHS including these points: • "Its four-year graduation rate is 85.4%, which is higher than 31% of high schools in the state and higher than its district." • "51.3% of graduates are college ready." In February 2022, the CBS station
WMAZ-TV highlighted Howard High School's newly opened "Howling Huskie" coffee shop as "real-life coffee shop experience while students get real-life work experience". HHS students in the Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) program run the café. == History ==