Editing Avondale Estates, Georgia (section)

==Education==
Avondale Estates is served by the [[DeKalb County School System]].<ref>"[http://avondaleestates.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1677 Zoning Map]." City of Avondale Estates. Retrieved on May 31, 2017.</ref>

Avondale Elementary School<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/avondale/|title=Avondale Elementary|website=www.dekalb.k12.ga.us}}</ref> is in the city limits.<ref>"[http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org/documents/planning/maps/es-attendance-areas.pdf Elementary School Attendance Areas 2016 - 2017 School Year]." [[DeKalb County School System]]. Retrieved on June 1, 2017.</ref> Druid Hills Middle School,<ref>"[http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org/documents/planning/maps/ms-attendance-areas.pdf Middle School Attendance Areas 2016 - 2017 School Year]." [[DeKalb County School System]]. Retrieved on June 1, 2017.</ref> and [[Druid Hills High School]] serve the community.<ref>"[http://www.dekalbschoolsga.org/documents/planning/maps/hs-attendance-areas.pdf High School Attendance Areas 2016 - 2017 School Year]." [[DeKalb County School System]]. Retrieved on June 1, 2017.</ref>

Avondale Middle School and [[Avondale High School (Georgia)|Avondale High School]], formerly adjacent to the city limits and serving the city, closed at the end of May 2011, and the students were distributed to neighboring schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://decatur.patch.com/articles/end-of-an-era-nears-at-avondale-high-school|title=End of an Era Nears at Avondale High School|date=12 May 2011}}</ref> The campus is now used exclusively by the [[magnet school]] [[DeKalb School of the Arts]].

In 2008, local parents began organizing formal efforts through the Avondale Education Association,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aeinfo.org/|title=Avondale Education Association|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622232659/http://www.aeinfo.org/|archive-date=2011-06-22}}</ref> a local grass-roots non-profit organization that was founded in October 2003, to create a charter school that would achieve the standards required by law, while establishing an elementary school that reflected the values of the community. Their proposal was initially rejected by the Dekalb County School Board, but it was subsequently selected by the Georgia Charter Schools Commission<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/pea_charter.aspx?PageReq=PEACSCommission |title=Georgia Charter Schools Commission |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719192737/http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/pea_charter.aspx?PageReq=PEACSCommission |archive-date=2010-07-19 }}</ref> as one of a small number of schools to be chartered directly by the State of Georgia. The school, Museum School of Avondale Estates,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themuseumschool.org/|title=The Museum School of Avondale Estates|website=The Museum School of Avondale Estates}}</ref> opened in 2010, and Avondale Estates therefore lies within its attendance zone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/10/10/museum-school-of-avondale-new-lease-on-life-and-on-empty-forrest-hills-elementary/?cxntfid%3Dblogs_get_schooled_blog |title=Museum School of Avondale: New lease on life and on empty Forrest Hills Elementary |date=October 10, 2011 | publisher=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |author=Downey, Maureen |access-date=2011-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718134120/http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/10/10/museum-school-of-avondale-new-lease-on-life-and-on-empty-forrest-hills-elementary/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog |archive-date=2014-07-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://aisforatlanta.com/2010/03/the-museum-school-of-avondale-estates/ |title=The Museum School of Avondale Estates &#124; A is for Atlanta |access-date=2011-11-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113033008/http://aisforatlanta.com/2010/03/the-museum-school-of-avondale-estates/ |archive-date=2012-01-13 }}</ref>
The Museum School admissions are accepted through a lottery.