Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy
Public, single-gender (girls and women) school in Atlanta, Georgia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy (CSKYWLA) was opened in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in August 2007. For a short time the academy was simply referred to as "the girls' single gender academy," but it was later named by its first principal, Melody Morgan, in honor of the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King, the civil rights leader and wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Atlanta , | |
Coordinates | 33.78928°N 84.481064°W / 33.78928; -84.481064 |
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Type | Public, single-gender (girls and women) |
Motto | "CSKYWLA – To be empowered by scholarship, non-violence, and social change, my sister" |
Established | August 2007 |
School district | Atlanta Public Schools- SRT 4 |
Principal | Eulonda Washington |
Grades | 6–12 |
Color(s) | Pink, white, and brown |
Mascot | Lady Eagles |
Website | http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/Page/12900 |
At its inception, the school served girls in grade 6 with plans for expansion to grade 12 by 2014. It graduated its first high school class in 2014. CSKYWLA is a public school in the Atlanta Public Schools system.
Among the staff and students, the acronym for the school's name, CSKYWLA (pronounced "see-skee-WAH-lah"), has been coined as a salutation given the definition "to be empowered by scholarship, non-violence, and social change, my sister."