2025-2026 Military Flagship School Award Application

The Georgia Department of Education's Military Flagship School Award recognizes schools that go above and beyond to provide a supportive environment for military students and families. Selected schools are those that provide specific outreach to military families and recognize and accommodate their unique needs.

The 2025-2026 Military Flagship School Award application is due January 15, 2026. Should you have any questions about the award or the application process, contact Rachale LaVoie, GaDOE Military Student & Family Specialist, at rachale.lavoie@doe.k12.ga.us.

Select School District or State Charter*

School Name:*

Congressional District*

If you do not know your school's congressional district, please use the Find Your Representative tool on the United States House of Representatives website.

School Address*

Street Address

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School Phone Number*

School Website*

School Social Media Accounts

Principal Name*

First NameLast Name

Principal Email Address*

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Principal Phone Number*

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Application Contact Name*

First NameLast Name

Application Contact Title*

Application Contact Email*

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Application Contact Phone Number*

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Total Enrollment*

Military-Connected Student Enrollment*

Percentage of Students Eligible for Free or Reduced Lunch*

Title I School*

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1. What is the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children? *

0/250

2. Who is covered under the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children? *

0/250

3. Explain your understanding of a deployment cycle. Discuss the implications of the deployment cycle, including dwell time between deployments, and how these times impact military children.*

0/250

4. What services or programs does your school offer to support the needs of military students and their families?*

Examples include, but are not limited to: career academy offerings, JROTC, counseling services, mentor programs, dual enrollment, second look policy, transition services (i.e., assistance provided to families during the enrolling/unenrolling process), etc. 0/250

5. What specific training does your school provide to personnel to help them understand and support the needs of military children? Please include the name of the training and the topics covered.*

Examples could include, but are not limited to: training and professional development, hiring staff with a military background (including military spouses with provisional certification), utilizing military-connected data and resources (e.g., Blue Star Families Annual Survey, Military OneSource, etc.), collaborating with service members or a local military installation, etc. 0/250

6. What opportunities does your school provide for military parents and their children to connect with and feel supported by the surrounding community?*

Examples include, but are not limited to: relief funds for struggling students, college scholarship opportunities financed by local businesses, cooperative school and community projects, providing guardians with community resource information and contacts, family activities such as STEM or literacy activities, etc.0/250

7. How does your school create opportunities to help military parents and their children feel engaged and respected within their new school?*

Examples include, but are not limited to: military-connected celebrations such as Veterans Day and Month of the Military Child, military ball, volunteer opportunities (guardians and military personnel) and PTA involvement, web-based programs for parent and teacher communication, school speaking engagements for military leaders, bulletin boards and posters honoring current and veteran military personnel throughout the school, acknowledgement of military families in the school's parent and family engagement plan or policy, etc.0/250

8. What specific outreach has your school made to military families and children?*

Examples include, but are not limited to: established procedures to help new students adjust (including providing information about school clubs and offerings), outreach to students separated from guardians due to deployment, after-school club for military children or children whose guardians are deployed, mentors for new students, attendance policy that addresses deployment, lending closets for families in transition, etc. 0/250

9. Explain how your school assists with academic planning for military-connected students. *

Examples include, but are not limited to: review of student transcripts before their transition, providing educators, guardians, and students with applicable resources, community engagement opportunities, etc.0/250

10. Explain your school's process for dissemination and collection of the Impact Aid Student-Parent Survey. *

0/250

1. Does your school have a way to identify students come from Gold Star families?*

YesNo

Please describe how your school recognizes Gold Star families and their students. *

2. Does your school allow excused absences for a student during their guardian's overseas deployment departure and arrival day?*

YesNo

If your school allows excused absences for a student during their guardian's overseas deployment departure and arrival day, please outline your process. *

Example: Student must submit documentation, etc.

3. Does your school or district allow enrollment with military orders, military ID, or shot records for 90 days until the family finds a home or lease?*

YesNo

4. Does your school allow online or phone registration for students of incoming military members from overseas Department of Defense installations?*

YesNo

If your school or district allows online or phone registration for students of incoming military members from overseas Department of Defense installations, please outline your process. *

5. Does your school have a military buddy system linking incoming military students with other military students upon arrival (either a student sponsor or an adult mentor)?*

YesNo

If your school or district has a military buddy system linking incoming military students with other military students upon arrival (either with a student sponsor or an adult mentor), please outline your process.

6. Does your school have a designated point of contact for military families?*

YesNo

If your school has a designated point of contact for military families, please list their name, title, and contact information.

7. For schools serving grade 10 through 12, was the ASVAB (Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery) administered during the 2025-2026 school year?*

YesNoN/A

If your school administered the ASVAB during the 2024-2025 school year, how many eligible students (grades 10-12) took the exam?

Military families need readily accessible, up-to-date digital information on schools their children may attend, including, but not limited to:

Regularly updated school and district websites.
Regularly updated school and district social media platforms.
Digital current and future school calendars.
Information posted online about school offerings of specific interest to military families (including, but not limited to, the activities described in Section E).

Please submit no more than five, and no fewer than three, examples of readily accessible, up-to-date information your school has provided through a school website, district website, school social media account, or district social media account.

These examples are not required to reference military families specifically, but should all showcase information that is of interest to military families who may be relocating to your district.

For each example, please provide a screen capture and a short explanation (2-3 sentences) of the information provided. Please consolidate all of your examples into a single PDF file.

Upload the PDF file with your examples here.*

Please share any additional details you would like us to know about your school, students, family, and community.

Example: More than 15% of our total district population is military-connected, 12 of our educators are military-connected, our community hosts annual events aimed at engaging our military population, more than 50% of our eligible 10-12th graders took the ASVAB last year, and so on.

Application Contact Signature (Note: If you are not the principal, by signing this submission, you signify that you have informed your school principal of this application.)

2025-2026 Military Flagship School Award Application

School Information & Contacts

School Data

Section A: Narrative

Section B: Activities

Section C: Outreach