50 Best Public High Schools - Atlanta Magazine (Roswell, Marietta: school rankings, college)

[mrpanda]

I was just at Publix today and picked up a copy of Atlanta magazine.

Best Public Georgia High School Rankings
1. Northview - Johns Creek
2. Walton
3. Dekalb School of the Arts
4. Chattahoocee HS - Johns Creek
5. Lassiter
6. Pope
7. Alpharetta
8. Johns Creek HS - Johns Creek
9. Milton
10. Starrs Mill
11. Brookwood
12. Harrison
13. McIntosh
14. Riverwood
15. Parkview
16. Lakeside
17. Peachtree Ridge
18. Chamblee Charter
19. Wheeler
20. Decatur

Rank #1, #4, and #8 are three high schools that represent the new city of Johns Creek.

[northwinds]

What?.....no City of Atlanta schools on the list......who woulda thunk that......

[ATLTJL]

Did Duluth high make the list at all?

[HayateWind]

Let me complete the list:

21. Roswell - Fulton
22. Sequoyah - Cherokee
23. Dunwoody - Dekalb
24. Etowah - Cherokee
25. Whitewater - Fayette
26. Collins Hill - Gwinnett
27. Kennesaw Mountain - Cobb
28. Mill Creek - Gwinnett
29. Centennial - Fulton
30. Creekview - Cherokee
31. Hillgrove -Cobb
32. Kell - Cobb
33. Woodstock - Cherokee
34. North Gwinnett - Gwinnett
35. Duluth - Gwinnett
36. Buford - Buford City
37. Union Grove - Henry
38. Grady - Atlanta
39. The School of the Arts at Carver - Atlanta
40. North Springs - Fulton
41. Norcross - Gwinnett
42. Druid Hills - Dekalb
43. Fayette County - Fayette
44. Grayson - Gwinnett
45. TEACH Charter - Fulton
46. Sprayberry - Cobb
47. Allatoona - Cobb
48. Cherokee - Cherokee
49. Dacula - Gwinnett
50. Sandy Creek - Fayette

Two Atlanta schools made the list.

They also included a lot of data on graduation/success rate, ACT/SAT scores, Graduation Test Scores, # of APs, and such, but it's far too much to type here.

[mrpanda]

Thanks HayateWind,

I got too lazy to type out rank #21 - 50 . I appreciate it.

Wait it minue here.... What the heck??? Where is Lambert High School in S. Forsyth????? MomDog, Buffalo... one of us needs to call Atlanta Magazine to tell them they made a big mistake in their rankings : Lambert HS should be in the top ten.

[MathmanMathman]

I went to school in Cobb. Looks like the only "old guard" Cobb school that has a good rank is Wheeler (although it has the ugliest campus). Sprayberry just made the list. The rest of the Cobb schools on the list are not so old. I think Walton was a spawn of Wheeler as it became overcrowded. I don't see the familiar names North Cobb, South Cobb, McEachern, Pebblebrook, and Campbell. I think Marietta was a good school but even in my time it went into "decline".

[brownhornet]

Yea because those job interviewers definitely care about your high school rank. -___-

[Georgia]

Dacula is still on the list after all the chopping due to two new schools Archer and Mountain View, which are not on the list. Another portion went over to Mill Creek which is on the list.

[gtcorndog]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Yea because those job interviewers definitely care about your high school rank. -___-

No, but college admission departments certainly do.

Being ranked in the top 20th percentile at MLK or Frederick Douglas and (insert East Cobb School here) are two very, very different things. One requires the ability to fog a mirror, the other requires multiple AP classes and a 4.0+ GPA.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by MathmanMathman

I went to school in Cobb. Looks like the only "old guard" Cobb school that has a good rank is Wheeler (although it has the ugliest campus). Sprayberry just made the list. The rest of the Cobb schools on the list are not so old. I think Walton was a spawn of Wheeler as it became overcrowded. I don't see the familiar names North Cobb, South Cobb, McEachern, Pebblebrook, and Campbell. I think Marietta was a good school but even in my time it went into "decline".

You must be old...

I grew up in fashionable East Cobb...Walton and Lassiter are old guard in my book.


East Cobb
Walton--Spawn of Wheeler+Sprayberry

Lassiter--Spawn of Walton+Sprayberry

Pope--Spawn of Lassiter+Walton

Kell--Spawn of Lassiter+North Cobb+Sprayberry

"Old Guard": Wheeler and Sprayberry


West Cobb
Harrison--Spawn of North Cobb+McEachern

Kennesaw Mountain--Spawn of Harrison+North Cobb

Hillgrove--Spawn of McEachern+Kennesaw Mountain+Harrison

Allatoona--Spawn of Kennesaw Mountain+Harrison+North Cobb

"Old Guard": McEachern and North Cobb