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Old 10-26-2018, 08:26 AM
 
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Top 5 Systems:

1. Forsyth: 1167
2. Oconee: 1162
3. Decatur: 1160
4. Walker: 1150
5. Fayette: 1142
5. Buford: 1142
Some of these city systems only have one high school. If cities like Alpharetta, Chamblee and Johns Creek had independent schools systems they'd probably knock out several of the above.
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Old 10-26-2018, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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Top 5 Systems:

1. Forsyth: 1167
2. Oconee: 1162
3. Decatur: 1160
4. Walker: 1150
5. Fayette: 1142
5. Buford: 1142
Walker is a district? As in Walker County in NW Georgia? Or Walker School in Marietta? Either way, that would be a shock... Walker County as the third highest scoring county system in Georgia or that Walker School is the highest scoring private school in the state.
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Old 10-26-2018, 08:42 PM
 
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Walker is a district? As in Walker County in NW Georgia? Or Walker School in Marietta? Either way, that would be a shock... Walker County as the third highest scoring county system in Georgia or that Walker School is the highest scoring private school in the state.
Yes, that is indeed the Walker County Schools system in northwest Georgia that has earned the fourth-highest SAT score in the state of Georgia.
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Old 10-26-2018, 09:32 PM
 
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Walker is a district? As in Walker County in NW Georgia? Or Walker School in Marietta? Either way, that would be a shock... Walker County as the third highest scoring county system in Georgia or that Walker School is the highest scoring private school in the state.
Yes, it's Walker County in NW GA. They are a tiny system, so a few high scores skew the average.
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Old 10-27-2018, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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Yes, it's Walker County in NW GA. They are a tiny system, so a few high scores skew the average.
It isn't what I would call tiny. 68k population. Suburban Chattanooga. Still very shocking that it would rank ahead of metro school districts like Fayette and others. Chickamauga has a separate city system.
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Old 10-27-2018, 11:53 AM
 
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Walker is a district? As in Walker County in NW Georgia? Or Walker School in Marietta? Either way, that would be a shock... Walker County as the third highest scoring county system in Georgia or that Walker School is the highest scoring private school in the state.
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Yes, that is indeed the Walker County Schools system in northwest Georgia that has earned the fourth-highest SAT score in the state of Georgia.
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Yes, it's Walker County in NW GA. They are a tiny system, so a few high scores skew the average.
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It isn't what I would call tiny. 68k population. Suburban Chattanooga. Still very shocking that it would rank ahead of metro school districts like Fayette and others. Chickamauga has a separate city system.
Y'all, don't be alarmed/shocked. You have to take the analysis to the next level:


Walker County only had 30 total SAT test takers. This means that they are probably an ACT-taking emphasis district. Which also means that those taking the SAT are opting in and more than likely are students that have higher aspirations and/or goals for going out-of-state, to the Northeast, to a private U, etc.


30 SAT test takers in a county of 68,000 is does not represent the population.


This is another reason why GA often falls near the bottom of SAT-rankings. We are still an overall SAT-emphasis state when many of our neighbors (AL, MS, etc.) emphasize the ACT.




Now, I do think Walker County is good place and I am proud of suburban Chattanooga.
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Old 10-27-2018, 02:53 PM
 
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Top 5 Systems:

1. Forsyth: 1167
2. Oconee: 1162
3. Decatur: 1160
4. Walker: 1150
5. Fayette: 1142
5. Buford: 1142

Top 25 High Schools in the State:

1. 1364: Gwinnett School of Math, Science, & Tech. (Magnet)
2. 1275: Northview
3. 1262: Walton
4. 1240: Chattahoochee
5. 1237: Columbus (Magnet)
6. 1224: John's Creek
7. 1221: Lambert
8. 1220: Davidson (Magnet)
9. 1212: Alpharetta
10. 1210: McIntosh
11. 1204: Lassiter
12. 1203: Pope
13. 1201: South Forsyth
14. 1200: North Gwinnett
15. 1187: Savannah Arts Academy (Magnet)
16. 1184: Cambridge
17. 1184: Milton
18. 1172: Chamblee, Kennesaw Mountain, Starr's Mill, Heritage
23. 1165: Oconee
24. 1165: Roswell
25. 1162: Decatur

https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/site/d...90546&PageID=1


Lookie here:

https://www.masslive.com/expo/news/e...schools-w.html


I think the Metro Atlanta/Georgia schools stack up very well to the schools in the link above--especially considering the super-affluence in Massachusetts and Boston's "Golden Ring", the extremely high concentration of families in Mass working in top universities and tech, and New England towns' infamous, yet very effective, exclusionary zoning laws.
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Old 10-27-2018, 03:05 PM
 
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Walker is a district? As in Walker County in NW Georgia? Or Walker School in Marietta? Either way, that would be a shock... Walker County as the third highest scoring county system in Georgia or that Walker School is the highest scoring private school in the state.
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Yes, that is indeed the Walker County Schools system in northwest Georgia that has earned the fourth-highest SAT score in the state of Georgia.
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Originally Posted by PTC Dad View Post
Yes, it's Walker County in NW GA. They are a tiny system, so a few high scores skew the average.
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It isn't what I would call tiny. 68k population. Suburban Chattanooga. Still very shocking that it would rank ahead of metro school districts like Fayette and others. Chickamauga has a separate city system.
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Y'all, don't be alarmed/shocked. You have to take the analysis to the next level:


Walker County only had 30 total SAT test takers. This means that they are probably an ACT-taking emphasis district. Which also means that those taking the SAT are opting in and more than likely are students that have higher aspirations and/or goals for going out-of-state, to the Northeast, to a private U, etc.


30 SAT test takers in a county of 68,000 is does not represent the population.


This is another reason why GA often falls near the bottom of SAT-rankings. We are still an overall SAT-emphasis state when many of our neighbors (AL, MS, etc.) emphasize the ACT.




Now, I do think Walker County is good place and I am proud of suburban Chattanooga.
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Originally Posted by PTC Dad View Post
Top 5 Systems:

1. Forsyth: 1167
2. Oconee: 1162
3. Decatur: 1160
4. Walker: 1150
5. Fayette: 1142
5. Buford: 1142

Top 25 High Schools in the State:

1. 1364: Gwinnett School of Math, Science, & Tech. (Magnet)
2. 1275: Northview
3. 1262: Walton
4. 1240: Chattahoochee
5. 1237: Columbus (Magnet)
6. 1224: John's Creek
7. 1221: Lambert
8. 1220: Davidson (Magnet)
9. 1212: Alpharetta
10. 1210: McIntosh
11. 1204: Lassiter
12. 1203: Pope
13. 1201: South Forsyth
14. 1200: North Gwinnett
15. 1187: Savannah Arts Academy (Magnet)
16. 1184: Cambridge
17. 1184: Milton
18. 1172: Chamblee, Kennesaw Mountain, Starr's Mill, Heritage
23. 1165: Oconee
24. 1165: Roswell
25. 1162: Decatur

https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/site/d...90546&PageID=1

I can say this though...

Good things must be happening in suburban Chattanoonga because the "Heritage" in the list below is the Heritage High School in Ringgold--a suburb of Chattanooga.


In 2008, Heritage High relieve overcrowding at Ringgold High and Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High (the quintessential "Georgia-side" suburban Chattanooga high school).

Heritage High
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herita...gold,_Georgia)
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Old 10-27-2018, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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Good stuff Aries. I had to think that there was some anomaly happening for Walker to be rated that high. Not dissing them, but higher than Fayette?

Side note.... I hate it when districts name a new high school the same name as one already existing in the state: Culprits: Lakeside in Columbia County (Lakeside, DeKalb was first) Woodland in Henry (Bartow had the first Woodland) and now this Heritage in Catoosa (Rockdale had one first). Northside, Central, etc, those are bound to happen but specific names like these?

Sequoyah in Cherokee was named some years after Sequoyah in DeKalb was relegated to middle school status. And Archer in Gwinnett came years after Archer in Atlanta had closed so I'll give them a pass. Can you think of others? Carver in Columbus and Atlanta, but I don't know who was first.
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Old 10-27-2018, 07:00 PM
 
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I can say this though...

Good things must be happening in suburban Chattanoonga because the "Heritage" in the list below is the Heritage High School in Ringgold--a suburb of Chattanooga.


In 2008, Heritage High relieve overcrowding at Ringgold High and Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High (the quintessential "Georgia-side" suburban Chattanooga high school).

Heritage High
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herita...gold,_Georgia)
Good info. I was wondering where Heritage was. At first, I thought of Heritage in Rockdale, but with only 30 test takers that seemed to be way too small for a suburban Atlanta school.
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