WELCOME BACK

Greetings and welcome back to the 2024-2025 School Year!

I am so proud to serve you all as the new Principal of Henderson Mill Elementary School. Your overwhelming support and steadfast commitment this Summer is so deeply valued. This is why I truly love this school.

The Henderson Mill Staff are thrilled to kick off the new year! We’re eagerly anticipating the start of teaching and learning with your children this school year. For details about next week, please watch the video above and check our school website regularly for updates.

A heartfelt thank you to all the parents and community members who have signed up to help set up our building on July 29th. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so here: https://forms.office.com/r/Dg5uyNNSLG. You can arrive at anytime after 8:30am and the building closes at 6:00pm. We are thankful for anytime you can come out to support.

Also, we appreciate in advance those who will join us on August 3rd to beautify our campus from 9am to 3pm (no sign-up needed for this event).

Enjoy the remaining days of summer!

-Dr. Blanton

The new school year will kick off with “Open House” at Henderson Mill on Thursday, August 1st from 9:30am-1:30pm. You will have an opportunity to visit the school, get bus route, lunch and class assignment information. You will also meet our awesome PTA and visit with friends and neighbors from last school year.

• Returning families will need to complete the annual verification. Please watch the videos below for assistance.
  https://youtu.be/sA0bp3sdjBo - English
  https://youtu.be/isW0bsVIfrQ - Spanish

• All new students to Dekalb will need to begin the registration process prior to Open House: www.dekalbschoolsga.org/online-registration/

• In order to SKIP the lines, please complete this link after you have completed your annual verification: https://forms.office.com/r/1va1wuBKBG

• Bring your gently used bookbags if you have them. PTA will have a bookbag donation rack for any parent that is need of a bookbag for their child. 😍

Please complete Meal Application Information 2024-2025. Only 1 Application Needed per Family: https://www.schoolcafe.com/

Please ALL complete this application process even if you plan to bring lunch for your child daily or believe that you will not qualify. This is very important, this impacts funding for Title 1.

Please click link for English/Spanish application.

https://www.dekalbschoolsga.org/featured-news/free-reduced-meal-applications-sy-2024-2025/

Don’t forget to send your summer photos!!

Take a photo of yourself reading a book this Summer. We love to see photos of Pre-K to 5th grade students reading during the summer! If you are staying home, going to the beach, visiting amusement parks or any other place you visit, please take a picture.

Please submit your photo to hendersonmillesregistrar@dekalbschoolsga.org

We will use all the photos for a joyful collage of reading at the beginning of the school year.

Email: regina_smiley-blanton@dekalbschoolsga.org
Website: https://www.hendersonmilles.dekalb.k12.ga.us/
Location: 2408 Henderson Mill Road, Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone: 678-874-3102
Twitter: @henderson_mill