Cross Keys High School, Brookhaven: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the Cross Keys High website, the DeKalb County School District’s school locator, planning data, cluster feeder patterns and 2026-27 calendar, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data, the Georgia High School Association and the federal NCES school directory.

Cross Keys High School is the DeKalb County School District high school on North Druid Hills Road, and the only district high school inside Brookhaven city limits. It serves ninth through 12th grade. The school uses an Atlanta mailing address, but the building is in Brookhaven, and the state’s 2025 data lists its city as Brookhaven. The DeKalb High School of Technology North, the district’s career and technical program, shares the campus and the main phone line.

• Address: 1626 N. Druid Hills Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30319
• Phone: 678-874-6102
• Grades: 9 to 12
• Website: crosskeyshs.dekalb.k12.ga.us

Who to call

• Cross Keys High front office: 678-874-6102
• Register a new student: the district’s online registration, then the school’s registrar
• Buses: the school’s bus routes page or district Student Transportation, 678-676-1333
• DeKalb County School District main line: 678-676-1200
• Is this your school? Check an address with the school locator

Principal

Principal Roberta Gibson, according to the school’s website. Her biography there says she began at Cross Keys in 2012 as a student teacher and has since been a special education teacher, coach, AP coordinator, athletic director and assistant principal at the school.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 1,890 students at Cross Keys in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 1,768 students and 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.9 students per teacher.

The district’s own enrollment and capacity table, on its planning page and updated Oct. 1, 2026, lists Cross Keys at 1,586 students in a building with a capacity of 1,271.

The new building

The district broke ground on Aug. 28, 2025, on an expansion and modernization of the 1958 building, according to its groundbreaking story. The $148,421,607 project is paid for by the voter-approved E-SPLOST sales tax and was approved by the Board of Education on March 10, 2025. It adds an auditorium, an athletic complex with a new baseball field and a new main entrance, and remodels the media center, cafeteria and parent drop-off area. That story said the work is scheduled to be finished by the 2028-29 school year; the district’s Student Assignment Project page lists the modernized school as opening in fall 2027.

State report card

Cross Keys’ 2025 CCRPI single score was 70.3, according to the state’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for high schools was 76.9 and the DeKalb County School District’s was 74.2. The school scored 63.4 in 2023 and 66.3 in 2024. Its four-year graduation rate was 73.7% in 2025, up from 64.3% in 2024, against 81.6% for the district and 87.2% for Georgia. The full report card is on the state’s Cross Keys High report card.

CCRPI is the Georgia Department of Education’s “comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform,” according to GaDOE. The single score runs from 0 to 100 and is built from content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness, plus graduation rate for high schools. Georgia does not publish an A-to-F letter grade for schools in its 2025 data.

Georgia Milestones end-of-course tests, 2025, share of tested students at each of the two top levels:

Attendance zone

Zones are set by the district and do not follow city limits. Check any address with the district’s school locator. Laying the district’s 2026-27 zone map over the Census Bureau’s city boundary, about 22% of Brookhaven’s land is zoned for Cross Keys: a band across the south of the city around North Druid Hills Road and Buford Highway. Most of the rest of the city is zoned for Chamblee High, and the southern tip for Druid Hills High.

Under the district’s cluster feeder patterns, Cross Keys is fed by Sequoyah Middle School, 3456 Aztec Road, whose zone is split between Cross Keys and Chamblee High. The elementary schools in the Cross Keys cluster are Cary Reynolds, Dresden, John Lewis, Montclair and Woodward. The school’s own feeder schools page lists only Cary Reynolds and Woodward.

Rezoning under study: Cross Keys is one of six clusters in the district’s Fall 2026 Student Assignment Project, which is redrawing zones for overcrowded schools before new and expanded buildings open from 2027 to 2029, including Cross Keys High, a new Dresden elementary, a new Sequoyah Middle and a new Sequoyah High. The district says no recommendations have been made and the Board of Education will consider them in December 2026. The district’s next public comment sessions on the project are set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Druid Hills Middle School and 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, at Dunwoody High School. No rezoning affecting Cross Keys has been approved.

Sports and activities

The GHSA 2026-27 region alignment places Cross Keys in Region 5-AAAAA with Banneker, Druid Hills, Jackson (Atlanta), Lithonia, Mays, Southwest DeKalb and Tucker. The district’s 2026 varsity football schedule lists the Cross Keys Phoenix as a non-region team this season, with home games at Adams Stadium, 2415 N. Druid Hills Road, a district stadium. Results: our high school scoreboard.

The school’s athletics page posts schedules for these teams:

• Football, flag football, cheerleading
• Baseball
• Basketball, boys and girls
• Cross country, track and field
• Soccer, boys and girls
• Swimming, tennis, volleyball

Career programs at the DeKalb High School of Technology North, listed on the school’s DHSTN page, include automotive, construction, cosmetology, dental science, healthcare science, law enforcement and manufacturing.

Calendar

From the district’s 2026-27 calendar (PDF):

• Through Friday, Oct. 9: fall break; classes resume Monday, Oct. 12
• Tuesday, Nov. 3: independent learner and professional development day
• Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break
• Dec. 21-31: winter break; the second semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
• Feb. 16-19, 2027: February break, after Presidents Day on Feb. 15
• April 5-9, 2027: spring break
• Thursday, May 27, 2027: last day of school

The district’s DHSTN page links a bell schedule for the technology program; we found no 2026-27 bell schedule for Cross Keys itself. Call the front office for start and dismissal times.

More

• The school’s website, administration page and athletics page
• The state’s report card for Cross Keys High
• Every public school in Brookhaven, with zones and scores: our Brookhaven public schools guide

Frequently asked questions

What grades does Cross Keys High School serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. It is the only DeKalb County School District high school inside Brookhaven city limits.

What is Cross Keys High School’s CCRPI score?

70.3 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, up from 66.3 in 2024 and 63.4 in 2023. The Georgia high school average was 76.9.

What is the graduation rate at Cross Keys High School?

73.7% for the four-year cohort in 2025, according to the state’s data, against 81.6% for the district and 87.2% for Georgia.

Which schools feed Cross Keys High School?

Sequoyah Middle School, fed by Cary Reynolds, Dresden, John Lewis, Montclair and Woodward elementary schools, according to the district’s cluster feeder patterns.

When will the new Cross Keys High School building open?

The district’s Student Assignment Project page lists the modernized Cross Keys High School as opening in fall 2027. The district’s groundbreaking story said the project is scheduled to be completed by the 2028-29 school year.