PAGE STAR
(Student Teacher Achievement Recognition)
The Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR) program honors Georgia’s highest-achieving high school seniors and the teachers most instrumental in their academic development. Since its creation in 1958 by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the STAR program has honored more than 29,000 students. In the mid-1990s, the PAGE Foundation was asked to assume responsibility for the oversight, administration and promotion of the statewide STAR program. Every accredited high school in Georgia is eligible to participate in this preeminent student/teacher academic recognition.
(l to r) PAGE Executive Director Craig Harper, 2023 State STAR Student Tito Alofe, 2023 State STAR Teacher John Campbell, and PAGE Foundation President Hayward Cordy.
Michelle Li, second from left, of North Oconee High School was the Runner-up State PAGE STAR Student. She named Jackson Huckaby as her STAR Teacher.
PAGE Executive Director Craig Harper, right, delights in presenting special mementos to local winners at the state banquet.
(l to r) PAGE Executive Director Craig Harper, 2023 State STAR Student Tito Alofe, 2023 State STAR Teacher John Campbell, and PAGE Foundation President Hayward Cordy.
How to become a STAR.
Students from every accredited high school in Georgia are eligible to participate in this preeminent student/teacher academic recognition. To be nominated as a STAR, Georgia high school students meet several criteria, including having the highest SAT score at their schools on any single test date through November of their senior year and being in the top 10 percent or top 10 students of their class based on grade point average.
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High school STAR Students are asked to name their STAR Teachers, who continue with their STAR Students at every level of the program. The educator the students chooses may be any Pre-K through 12 classroom teacher in good standing in an accredited Georgia school system or private school.
