The strategic planning process began with a community survey released in September 2019. The feedback was tremendous! The survey responses of more than 1,000 families, educators and community members helped our strategic planning committee prioritize the district's greatest challenges, specify what students need to learn to be successful, and define the evidence that will evaluate the quality of education in Whitfield County Schools.

An editorial in the Dalton Daily Citizen called the survey "…a great opportunity offered by the school board for you to tell its members and other school officials the direction the school system needs to go and how it should get there."

To show the progress of the Three-Year Strategic Plan, Strategic Plan Progress Reports are published annually.