Looking to move to Lawrencevile? Sugarloaf area

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by ATLTJL

That's a great story B2R, but there's a huge difference between where recruiters look to draw athletes and where they look to draw academic performers.

That's like picking a school in Hollywood based on where TV producers pluck child actors.

To be clear, I’m not recommending that the OP send their child to school in the Discovery cluster just based on that athletically-based recent memory that I have of the school.

I was just expressing a memorable story about a very young/still relatively new high school that has very little history and that may not be very well known by many metro Atlantans.

That’s all.

[cwkimbro]

Just a few things being lost here....

Gwinnett County is a great school system, period. They won the prestigious broad prize twice specifically for higher performance, once you factor in the socio-economic variables of the student population. Discovery HS is one of those schools that are ahead of the curve. In other words students are getting ahead, despite the headwinds they may face. That curve is placed on every Gwinnett County Schools' annual accountability report and it is posted on the school's website and the GCPS website, including the one on Discovery's website.

Discovery was built to take ease the pressure from population growth along the I-85 corridor. Central Gwinnett, Discovery, Berkmar, and Meadowcreek all have a good many apartments and no one single of those schools is taking the brunt force of that. It is probably one of the best high school's out of this group of schools in central Gwinnett with many apartments.

I would also caution against any bias against a school, because it has apartments, when it is someone looking for an apartment. The better question is what school has the resources to serve that student well and there are many indications that Discovery HS isn't a bad option and they have unique programs that seem to be helping that adjacent schools do not have.

One small thing I would draw attention to is 1st year college enrollment state out of graduation. It is lower in Berkmar and Meadowcreek and a small bit lower at Central Gwinnett. Discovery is not taking the worse of any of those areas as it would seem from prior posts. It is why I highlighted that in my first post here.

Even from the US news source Discovery ranks 159 in the state out of 485. That's a good school and places it in the top 1/3 of the state and it has some very unique programs.

Practice some caution against the hyper-competitiveness at trying to be only at the few schools at the very top only, largely driven from economic characteristics alone, and leave room for highlighting many of the schools that are good, working well and allow parents and OP's to consider many different variables in their school choice that go well beyond what you or I might feel. Our job here shouldn't be to upsell only the few mostly filled with homes $600k and up, but to help people choose from many options where many different variables influence people's decisions.

Peachtree Ridge is a great school and it should be considered, that is why I mentioned it. But it also covers a great deal of area of rather expensive housing to the west. Rents will be higher, but so would future home purchases. It will also have more of a country-club student population, which might not be desirable for some students either. I see no reason to put down Discovery that harshly.

[ShenardL]

Discovery school is ok. I know a Korean girl who graduated from there a few years ago and got a full scholarship to Stanford.