The Atlanta Preservation Center has provided a framework that Atlanta Public Schools (APS) can use to incorporate historic preservation into its strategic goals while serving the communities of Atlanta. All 92 APS schools 40+ years old are reviewed and ranked considering significance to communities and to Atlanta’s history, achievements by alumni and former faculty, architectural significance, and industry standards for historic preservation. These properties  are then assigned a score. This scoring rubric is based on a 1-10 scale, and it is sorted into three tiers for significance based on National Register standards.

Considerations for Scoring:

Age: Score for age by building, weighted by square footage per building for entire facility score

Culture: Historic events, patterns of development, important people, neighborhood

Architecture: Architect, style, cohesion, representativeness of surrounding contexthe