Georgia HomeroomKnow what your child should be learning and use it.
Georgia Homeroom is a free, bilingual guide for parents of Georgia K–12 kids. It does three things: it shows you what the state expects your child's school to teach at each grade, it helps you work with your child on that same material at home, and it explains the Georgia Milestones, the state test, so you know what's assessed and what "on track" means.
What are academic standards?
Every year, the state of Georgia publishes a list of what kids are expected to learn in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies, grade by grade. These are called the Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE).
Public schools in Georgia are supposed to teach to them. Until now, most parents never saw them. Georgia Homeroom turns them into plain language you can actually use.
Why we built this
Hold schools accountable for what they teach.
Most parents never get a clear answer to a simple question: "What is my child supposed to be learning this year?" Without that, it's hard to tell whether a classroom is moving at the right pace, skipping important topics, or drifting off the material the state expects.
Georgia Homeroom shows you, grade by grade and subject by subject, what Georgia says schools should be covering. You can compare that against what's actually coming home in assignments, tests, and report cards. That puts parents in a position to ask informed questions at conferences and expect real answers.
Help your kids with their schoolwork.
When your child is stuck on long division or struggling to write a paragraph, you don't want a random worksheet off the internet. You want help that matches what their teacher is teaching. Georgia Homeroom works from the same Georgia standards their school follows, and it teaches the method the standard describes rather than the one you grew up with, so your help reinforces the classroom instead of competing with it.
Ask how a kind of problem works and it walks through the reasoning step by step, builds its own worked example, and can generate practice questions with full solutions so you can coach.
What it won't do is hand over the answer: when you paste the exact problem your child is stuck on, it explains the approach and stops before the final step, leaving that for your child so the learning stays theirs. Ask in English or Spanish, at any grade from kindergarten through high school.
Understand what's on the Georgia Milestones.
The Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) is the state's annual test, given end-of-grade in grades 3–8 and end-of-course in four high school subjects, across reading and writing, math, science, and social studies. What it covers isn't arbitrary: the topics on the test, and how heavily each is weighted, are the ones Georgia has singled out as the year's most important.
Georgia Homeroom shows you what your child's test actually assesses and how that weight is distributed, and it explains the four achievement levels the results report (Beginning, Developing, Proficient, and Distinguished), so "Proficient" becomes a few concrete things your child should be able to do rather than a label.
The score matters differently by grade: in high school the end-of-course test counts as 20% of the final grade in that course, while in grades 3–8 it's a snapshot of where your child stands against grade-level expectations, not by itself a grade or a decision about moving up. Either way the results feed the state's rating of the school, so they're one of the main numbers a school is judged on.
How it works
- Pick a grade. Answers are tailored to what Georgia expects at your child's level.
- Ask in English or Spanish. Type your question however feels natural. Parents ask about topics, homework, report cards, and what a teacher said in class.
- Get answers grounded in the Georgia Standards of Excellence. Every response is based on the same standards your school is supposed to follow.