T.W. Josey, 1701 15th St.: grades 9-12, 740 students in 2025, CCRPI 50.4. Zone, feeders and the 7:25 a.m. start.

Last checked Oct. 6, 2026. Sources: the T.W. Josey website, the Richmond County School System’s school directory, School Zone and Bus Stop Locator and 2026-27 calendar (PDF), the 2026 facilities master plan FAQ, the GHSA’s 2026-27 region alignments, the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2025 School Grades data and the federal NCES school directory.

T.W. Josey Comprehensive High School is a Richmond County School System high school on 15th Street in Augusta, on a joint campus with the Murphey Middle School building. It serves ninth through 12th grade. Under the district’s 2026 facilities master plan, Josey students and staff spend the 2026-27, 2027-28 and 2028-29 school years together in the Murphey building while a districtwide college and career academy is built on the campus, according to the district’s plan FAQ.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Melisa Clark, according to the district’s school directory.

Enrollment and teachers

The state counted 740 students at T.W. Josey in its 2025 School Grades data. The most recent federal figure, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 636 students and 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 10.4 students per teacher.

State report card

T.W. Josey’s 2025 CCRPI single score was 50.4, according to the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s School Grades data. The Georgia average for high schools was 76.9 and the Richmond County School System’s was 56.9. The school’s single score was 36.5 in 2023, 39.4 in 2024 and 50.4 in 2025. The full report card, with subgroups and the parts of the score, is on the state’s T.W. Josey 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:

Subject Proficient Distinguished
American literature 2.8% 0.7%
Algebra 5.2% 1.2%
Biology 9.2% 0.7%
U.S. history 1.8% 12.5%

The four-year graduation rate for the class of 2025 was 66.1%, against 87.2% statewide. For the class of 2026 it rose 9.82 points to 75.88%, the largest gain in the district, according to a Sept. 28, 2026, district release based on Georgia Department of Education data; the district rate was 84.2% and the state’s 88.5%.

Attendance zone

Zones are set by the Richmond County School System and do not follow neighborhood lines or city limits. Check any address in the district’s School Zone and Bus Stop Locator. The district does not publish a feeder list; the feeder schools below come from that locator, which we checked at about 1,200 points across Richmond County on Oct. 6, 2026. Josey’s zone draws on three middle schools: part of Richmond Hill Middle, part of W.S. Hornsby Middle and part of Langford-Tutt Middle. The elementary schools are most of Wilkinson Gardens and Wheeless Road, part of A. Dorothy Hains, and Bayvale.

Murphey Middle’s attendance zone was dissolved at the end of 2025-26, and its students now go to Hornsby, Langford-Tutt or Richmond Hill middle schools, according to the plan FAQ. The FAQ says the Josey zone itself dissolves after the 2028-29 school year, when its students would be reassigned to the Academy of Richmond County, Butler and Laney zones, and that the academy on the Josey and Murphey site is expected to open for 2029-30. On March 25, 2026, the board named it the T.W. Josey High School College and Career Academy, keeping the Eagles mascot and the school colors, according to a district release. The district’s master plan page has the hearing recordings and updates.

Sports and activities

Josey plays in Region 4-AA for 2026-27, in Class AA, according to the GHSA’s region alignments. The school’s athletics pages list baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, football, golf, boys soccer, softball, track and field and volleyball. The district’s plan FAQ says Josey athletes are meant to keep competing together during the move. Its JROTC program is Air Force JROTC, according to the district. Schedules and results: our Friday night football page and the scoreboard.

Calendar

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

  • Thursday, Oct. 8: PowerUp asynchronous learning day; students learn on their own instead of in class
  • Friday, Oct. 9: student holiday
  • Oct. 12-13: fall break
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day holiday
  • Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving holiday
  • Dec. 23 to Jan. 5: Christmas and winter break; the second semester begins Thursday, Jan. 7
  • April 5-12, 2027: spring break
  • Wednesday, May 26, 2027: last day of school, early release

Bell times

The district’s School Zone and Bus Stop Locator lists school hours of 7:25 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. for T.W. Josey. Bus stop times for any address are in the same tool, and the Transportation Department answers questions at 706-796-4777.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does T.W. Josey serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. Its full name is T.W. Josey Comprehensive High School.

What is T.W. Josey’s CCRPI score?

50.4 in 2025, according to the state’s School Grades data, against an average of 76.9 for Georgia high schools.

What time does T.W. Josey start?

7:25 a.m., with dismissal at 2:15 p.m., according to the district’s School Zone and Bus Stop Locator.

Who is the principal of T.W. Josey?

Melisa Clark, according to the Richmond County School System’s school directory on Oct. 6, 2026.