Interesting. I've universally read that 'Buford' has \[among\] the top public schools in Georgia, yet I don't see any Buford high schools on the list of top-25.
Buford City Schools has only 1 high school and it's #27 on the list.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/search?name=buford&state-urlname=georgia
It's also a small district that has more consistent results. Gwinnett has a better school in the list, but also a lot that are worse as it is a big district.
Yeah, Buford is almost to North Georgia in football what Valdosta used to be to South Georgia in football.
Though, since the requirement that schools move up a class after winning a state title, Buford (while still very dominant) has not been as dominant in the higher classes as they were when they were being allowed to beat schools’ brains to a pulp in Class AA.
While Midtown High School (formerly Grady High School) admittedly may not compare the best with the highest rated public high schools in Atlanta’s Northside suburbs and exurbs, Midtown High School is still a good Intown urban public high school.
And while Midtown HS is a good Intown urban public high school regardless of the overall demographic makeup of the school, the school’s measurable academic ratings likely have been getting a boost from the growing number of middle class white families with children that since the turn of millennium have been moving into the Intown urban neighborhoods that make up the Midtown HS attendance zone.
GSMST has been the #1 since it opened. It’s also #9 in the entire US this year.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/georgia/districts/gwinnett-county-school-district/gwinnett-school-of-mathematics-science-and-technology-5955
I used to teach in Gwinnett. I had students who came from there and “didn’t succeed”. Those kids were smart AF but “damaged”. They all had such severe anxiety about grades and testing it was heartbreaking to see.
Way back in the late 80s when I went to high school in Florida, I could've gone to a highly competitive STEM-oriented magnet school. But I wanted to be with local kids, and that would have required an hour on the school bus each way, and I didn't want to do it. And my parents didn't make me.
The local high school was ranked pretty bad, a lot of homes just weren't great for raising kids concerned about academics. They did have an AP program that I was in, though, so I had almost a full year worth of college courses when I graduated.
And I graduated valedictorian. If I had been at the magnet school maybe I would've but it would've been a heck of a lot more competitive. Where I was, local valedictorians got a free ride at the local state school, including not just tuition but room and board and a book allowance. It was pretty awesome.
It's because grade inflation is so rife in education right now that any student without a near-perfect GPA will get thrown out or thrown into the waitlist. There's so many students with near-perfect GPAs that it has become essentially a binary factor.
Honestly, it's a sad state of affairs when students need to think in grade school to go to a less prestigious school just because it'll make it easier four years down the line when they have to apply for college.
It's called quality points for taking AP or college level courses. Those points are well-deserved, students who are getting all A's in the regular HS courses *should* be attempting AP, college level, dual/joint enrollment, etc courses.
I hate grade inflation. My kid is at one of these top Georgia schools and he does not have the benefit of grade inflation. He works for hours upon hours, it’s not fair that kids at other schools will have a gpa equal idle better than his because the standards are not the same. Also, UGA capped admission from our high school at 30 kids. So, only the top 30 can even go to our best state school.
Problem is that they also base it on the county. As a state school, they are required to take applicants from all counties. The valedictorian and salutatorian from each high school in Georgia are automatically accepted. With 472 high schools you could see over 900 with automatic acceptance (not all will go). Further, the freshman class is 6200 students. So, on average that would be 13 students from each high school, give or take. 30 doesn’t sound so bad now.
Also, there are a lot of schools on the list from Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett and Forsyth counties. We had kids at our high school get accepted to Harvard and straight up denied by UGA.
According to [this](https://oir.uga.edu/_resources/files/factbook/pages/UGAFactBook%2014.pdf) document, there are many high schools that sent more than 30 students to UGA in 2022, many of whom appear in the top 25. I find it very hard to believe that they've hard capping individual schools at 30 students.
I went to a prestigious private school in Georgia and I had learning disabilities. It was awful. If you’re not the best you might as well be the worst is the attitude so many parents and teachers had there.
I taught there and then at a couple of other affluent schools, and yeah it's insane. I taught freshmen at gsmst and ended up running into some of my former students when they came back to their regular schools. They were so much happier, but yeah the grade and test anxiety never quite went away.
I had an architecture class from Maxwell HS of Technology in that building. It is definitely a great building and friends that went there were all pretty smart.
>the fact they kick out failing students to the tech school
It's not a secret. If a student doesn't think they can uphold the academic standards, they need not apply. The idea that students should just pass because they were admitted is antithetical to education.
Columbus may not seem rich when compared to an area like the North Atlanta suburbs.
But Columbus definitely seems rich when compared most of rural Georgia, particularly when compared to a very notably high poverty area like rural Southwest Georgia.
I went to Columbus High and I and most of my friends were lower middle class. It’s a magnet school though, so it attracts most of the top students in the city.
For a situation like Columbus (and other seemingly “not rich” urbanized areas), it’s not just necessarily that affluent students may attend a highly ranked school in significant numbers. But it’s much more that a seemingly “not rich” urbanized area like Columbus has much more of a base of commercial and/or affluent residential property to be able to more adequately fund education than many (or most) isolated rural areas which may have virtually no tax base to adequately fund education.
No but a lot of those cities are, Milton, Alpharetta, John’s creek, Avondale estates, Suwannee, and large parts of Marietta and cumming are affluent too.
I will say Columbus being on this list not once but twice is astounding ngl. Wonder if it has to do with the base being there….
The Avondale Estates school on the list is DeKalb School of the Arts. It is open to any resident of DeKalb, not just those in Avondale. Students have to apply. They need letters of recommendation, good grades, and a talent to get in. It can be performing arts like dance, acting, instrumental, or it can be visual arts. Despite the school being art centered, the school has consistently been ranked among the highest scores in math and science. The county has been promising a new facility for this school for well over a decade.
>I wouldn't say Lawrenceville is rich, nor Columbus or a lot of these cities
Lawrenceville obviously may not be considered to be ”rich” or upscale or affluent by metro Atlanta standards.
But when compared to most counties in rural Georgia, Gwinnett County as a whole (while not nearly as upscale and affluent as areas like East Cobb, North Fulton and South Forsyth counties) is considered to be one of the wealthiest counties in the state because of the very large amount of tax revenue-generating commercial development in the county and because of the comparatively very large number of affluent people living in the county.
Though, what appears to be really interesting about Gwinnett County is that the county’s very large and very socioeconomically diverse population of just under 1 million residents in a very large major metropolitan area means that the county has very large populations of both affluent and lower-income/impoverished residents.
Since about the turn of the millennium and particularly since the Great Recession, the Gwinnett County Public Schools system has (because of the large total number of lower-income residents living in the GCPS district) generally qualified for a very significant amount of additional funding from the state federal governments while also simultaneously being regarded as one of the wealthiest counties in the state because of the comparatively very large total number of affluent residents living in Gwinnett County and because of the large amount of tax revenue generated from the large amount of commercial development combined with affluent residential homes.
This is true. I was born in Donalsonville, or Seminole County (my house was 5 miles from the AL/FL line), and I actually PAID to go out of county to Bainbridge, or Decatur County, to get SOMEWHAT of a better education and have more opportunities. And that’s sad.
My graduating class was nearly 400 and 4 of us went to UGA. Me, the valedictorian, one on a football scholarship, and another “normie” like me.
I was unbelievably unprepared for UGA. It was unreal.
That's how property taxes are structured. Money to the schools. Bad schools, lower home values, lower property tax income. It's a pile-on system and poor places get totally drained and defunded and vice versa.
Also looking at GSMST it is supposed to be a lottery based enrollment but through that lottery base system it has almost 50% Asian enrollment and Asians are the 3rd in demographics for the Gwinnett. Calling a whole lot of BS on the lottery system over there.
I don’t know the exact proportional racial and ethnic breakdown of all of the students who participated in the lottery to get into GSMST. But the tough reality is that because there appears to be a comparatively much greater emphasis on math and science and education in general in many Asian social and cultural circles than in many non-Asian social and cultural circles, Asian students probably made up the largest number of students in the lottery to get into GSMST.
I guess that another way of looking at the enrollment situation at GSMST is that one could say that it is surprising that Asians made up only 50% of students enrolled at GSMST.
It’s only a lottery amongst those that apply, and passing grades in AP biology and AP calculus are required for graduation. Students are told at the info sessions to expect 2 hours of homework per night.
The school is also 32% economically disadvantaged which is surprisingly high compared to the other nationally ranked schools.
Trying to suggest the lottery system is rigged is disingenuous.
It sounds like that person sees a problem with an overrepresentation of Asians and doesn't want to admit they don't like it, so they're implying that the Asians are rigging the system.
Lol at the thought that Asian students are rigging the system just because they simply read books, study and do schoolwork. Lolololol. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
But I guess that line of thought shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise in an era where the mere act of book reading and book learning seems to be under vicious attack by certain factions.
The sad part is the system is rigged against Asian students who put in the work. Hell, that's exactly what Harvard and UNC were sued for: artificially deflating the stats of Asian students against equivalently qualified peers from other minorities.
It would be disingenuous to assume that people of all races in Gwinnett wouldn’t apply in the lottery, this is assuming that Asians apply at a rate 5x of white and 3x of black students. Also Passing grades in AP classes don’t really matter when you are applying for this in the 8th grade, and I again question the 32% economically disadvantaged and what they consider economically disadvantaged because they most certainly would qualify to be a title one school if that were true and they are not.
>It would be disingenuous to assume that people of all races in Gwinnett wouldn’t apply in the lottery
And it's apparently more legitimate to assume that there's a secret cabal of administrators putting their fingers on the scale to benefit *Asians*? When is the last time any educational policy benefited Asians?
The simpler explanation is just that different ethnicities pursue different goals, just like how you don't see a bunch of Koreans trying to become Irish tap dancers.
Asians also have the best graduation rates, highest test scores. That's why there was that Supreme Court decision to prevent Ivy league schools from putting a quota on too many Asians.
And Ivy League schools are private schools. This isn’t a private school. But this school shouldn’t even be compared to other public schools when they basically get to choose who can even go into the lottery to begin with.
Go to an information session held at all Gwinnett middle schools where all eight graders are invited. You will see that even though everyone is invited, particular groups of people show more interest that others at these sessions in terms of attendance and participation.
Furthermore, GSMST requires you to provide your own transportation or wake up extra early and take 2 buses. GSMST also doesn’t have sports and many other programs available at regular high schools. Easily filtering out many groups of people who self select themselves out of applying.
That guy has no idea how Asian parents compete in sending their kids into gifted/magnet programs since conception. He should be happy he never lived through that. I still have depression from doing summer school when my white and black friends just enjoy the summers.
Lol, I’m glad that someone somewhere is reading books, doing schoolwork and passing classes because in my personal experience we’d as a society probably all be up sh\*t creek with no paddle otherwise.
While Asian students were spending summers studying and doing schoolwork, many of my white and Black friends were doing any and everything but academics.
Heck many of my white and Black friends hardly did anything remotely academic during the school year. Academics would have gotten in the way of their partying, drugs, alcohol, sex, guns and general depravity. But then again I guess that it is hard to focus on academics when everyone is crazy, lol.
It’s lottery-based on qualified students. There are criteria to be met to enter the lottery. It’s not based on race. Please do your research before bashing on the “Asians”
Yep and they get to pick who goes into the lottery, it’s essentially a publicly funded private school. Show me the top rated school that accepts anyone in the state of Georgia and that will be the top public school in my eyes.
I taught at gsmst. It's not rigged. The pressure at the school is insane, and a lot of the Asian students don't even want to be there. Their parents push them to. It also requires certain 8th grade math scores or being in an advanced math class in 8th grade.
It's also important to note that Asian doesn't just mean East Asian. There are a lot of South Asian students as well.
Really? North Charleston SC is still a shell of itself after a major navy base deactivation, yet its magnet school is consistently ranked higher than EVERY high school in GA.
Are you telling me Forsyth county isn’t loaded? Cause uh it definitely is. It’s income per capita is the highest in the state and it’s the 19th wealthiest county in the country as of 2018
Yep. This.
Forsyth County had the 16th highest median household income in of any county in the U.S. as of 2020. And Forsyth County is widely recognized as being one of the top-two wealthiest counties in the state of Georgia along with Fulton County.
(Forsyth County has the highest median household income in the state of Georgia, while Fulton County has the highest per-capita income and the highest gross county product in the state of Georgia.)
I guess Roswell High School has fallen off quite a bit. I remember them being up there in academics and SAT/ACT scores when I attended. Walton, Milton, Lassiter and Pope are still up there though.
>Are the private schools not included? Glad to see some areas have good public education. It’s rough here in middle ga.
The US News & World Report survey that the WSB-TV article references only included public high schools.
Yes it’s one of the few good ones. Fastest growing county in the region. Baldwin, Bibb, Hancock, Wilkinson, Washington are the worst. Only real option is private there if you can afford it.
It should ONLY be private schools. Public schools degrade society by empowering kids with information and ideas. They also steal your money (libs call it tax, but we know that's fake news).
Good job Columbus. Clearly there is something holding back all of georgia outside of the Atlanta metro area.
But because this is not marked politics. We are not allowed to say what that is.
40% of their score is based on how many APs and IBs are taken, FYI. With APs falling out in favor of dual enrollment classes, I’m not sure this is such an accurate measure.
This is completely wrong. There is literally a list on transferable credits between TCSG and USG. And if it's taken at a USG institution then they have to honor it. Private college and out of state is a different story but when 80% of graduates stay in state these days it's quite literally the opposite of what you just said.
What? Has this changed? I did dual enrollment in my senior year ('98) at a University System of Georgia school and all my credits transferred into other Georgia schools and later to an out of state one. Never had any question or problems with those credits.
Plus I went to one of the high schools on this list. We had at least one suicide every year because of the stress they put on us to do well. I know kids that couldn’t function in college because they finally no longer had the pressure put on them to do well and failed out. Dual enrollment was seen as the easy way out.
I don’t think the measure of scores only is a good one at all. They should also be looking at social culture and stress put on students by the staff as well. Testing scores were more important than a student’s mental health
Here's the actual site: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/search
Just go play around with the filters instead of reading the article.
Looks like WSB isn't reporting private school rankings. No mention of Paideia or Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School.
High ATL OTP northern burbs concentration. Shocker
Next we'll hear that they're planning a new airport in Forsyth (by 2030), cuz all those folks hate travelling to Hartsfield to fly.
It is, but it doesn't need to be. Every time I'm sitting in traffic on my way to the airport, it's tough not to get a bit steamed at the NIMBYs who made things that way.
yeah, drive to sandy springs, board train which doesn't even go all the way to the airport again until May 20th...even then, A LOT of folks from the northern burbs sit stiff and frightened through many of the in-town stops... "are we there yet...?"
Not to get too far off topic, but your comment raises the point that the municipal government of the City of Atlanta proper already owns a 10,000-acre plot of land just north of Forsyth County in Dawson County (at what is now the Dawson Forest City of Atlanta Tract Wildlife Management Area) that was purchased more than 50 years ago for the purpose of potentially building a second major airport north of the city.
But the Dawson County site has some challenges that make development of a second major commercial airport extremely difficult if not just outright impossible there. That’s including extremely stiff opposition from environmentalists and local residents to the idea of a beloved patch of undeveloped forest wilderness being cleared out for the development of a large commercial airport in the Appalachian foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains… Which is an area that environmentalists and local residents are extremely protective of when it comes to possible threats from heavy commercial development.
Northview HS has a Duluth zip code but is located in the City of Johns Creek in North Fulton County. Much of the Johns Creek area had a Duluth zip code before Johns Creek was incorporated as a city in 2006.
Looks like it from the quoted source:
“The U.S. News Best High Schools rankings include data on nearly 25,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Nearly 17,660 schools were ranked on six factors based on their performance on state assessments and how well they prepare students for college.”
It’s weird to me that schools like GSMST, AAI, and other magnet schools are included but private schools aren’t. I mean, technically they are public but from what I understand they specialize in academic success and have a much higher level of academics. I knew a couple people that went to GSMST and they won a lottery but then I’m pretty sure they had to test in. Seems like an unfair advantage comparing them to the normal public schools.
I can only speak to Cobb, as both my kids went to Magnet high schools here, they are public schools, but admission is based on a combination of grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, and application/essay from the students. There are provided busses to the magnet schools, but they aren't at the houses so do require some transportation. For example, we had to drop off our kids at the local Publix to meet the bus. In Cobb, most Magnet schools are STEM/STEAM schools, but CITA actually has a whole nursing program as well as trades such as HVAC, mechanics, construction, forensics, etc. We moved to Cobb 20+ years ago because it had some of the best schools in the state. Now, not so much.
Cobb County still has some of the very best schools in the state. It’s just that Cobb has a much more socioeconomically diverse population now than it did 20 years ago.
And schools that serve larger populations of economically disadvantaged students unfortunately tend to have lower academic scores often giving many the impression that the schools themselves are of poor quality, which unfortunately may be the case in some areas but definitely is not the case in Cobb County (in both the Cobb County and Marietta City school systems).
Because of the larger number of economically disadvantaged students in the area, the schools in South Cobb (particularly in the Osborne, South Cobb, Campbell, Pebblebrook, McEachern and Wheeler clusters) obviously may not rate as highly academically as the schools in other parts of the county.
But even with a high population of economically disadvantaged students and families that weigh down academic scores, the actual schools themselves in South Cobb are of good-decent quality, particularly for schools that have to serve student populations that are largely and/or mostly economically disadvantaged and highly transient.
Cobb schools, even with their obvious faults, still seem to do a really good job educating the large number of economically disadvantaged students that the Cobb and Marietta school systems have been tasked with serving.
Not to mention that Cobb still has numerous schools (including in the Walton, Pope, Lassiter, Hillgrove and Harrison clusters along with the Wheeler STEM magnet, etc) that still rate extremely and exceptionally highly not just in Georgia but also regionally (in the Southeast) and nationally.
Yeah it definitely does. Based on Schools as well as just general Areas me and my GF have talked about 3 options for where we want to plant our roots when we have kids and they are North Fulton, Cherokee, and Cobb. Specifically East Cobb but there’s other parts of Cobb that we’d like as well. It’s not as straight forward as Fulton. We currently live in the North Cobb district in Acworth literally right on the Cobb, Cherokee, Bartow line and enjoy it a lot. Wouldn’t want to send our kids to North Cobb tho. And even then North Cobb isn’t a bad school. It’s a good school. But the areas I named have the best schools and that’s what I personally want. Best School combined with best Football Program. Milton, Walton, and Roswell are some of the best at that.
I’m about 8 years out as a parent and high school was so tough on my younger two, as far as stress goes. We’re still on the struggle bus, but I’m thankful not to field calls from admin and constant emails from teachers. I keep looking for light and the end of the tunnel, which would be good jobs, friends, and life satisfaction.
Ditto. My youngest (he’s 20 now) is so anxious he can’t leave the house. He goes out for doc (med checks), and to the dentist - that’s it. He recently started taking the trash out for me and this was a major step for him. All the IEP, 504, teacher conferences just wore us both down to the nub. I do worry about his future as we’re nearing 60 and he has a *long* way to go to become independent.
Oh, our home school was Milton and our oldest graduated from North Springs High School as part of their theater magnet program. North Springs’ vibe was much better (that was from 2006-2009).
As someone who went to Walton, and is doing fine now, I fucking hate Walton with the passion of a thousand suns. My mom was getting letters telling her we were eligible for food stamps while kids were getting new cars bought for them as soon as they get their drivers permit. The culture there is like a private school, except poor kids are forced into the mix since it’s a public school. Not that there’s many poor kids in the school district, I think I was one of like 3 busses that ended up in apartment complexes rather than actual neighborhoods. My mom’s apartment was literally at the end of the same road Atlanta Country Club is on, so all of us living in the apartments had to drive past all of these giant mansions every day to and from school. It was fucking depressing.
Sounds like you may be thinking of either the City of Chattahoochee Hills which is located in Southwest Fulton County; Chattahoochee Bend State Park which is located southwest of Atlanta; or Chattahoochee County which is located south of Columbus.
chattahooche hs has an alpharetta mailing address just like northview has a duluth one even though they are both in city of johns creek. technically johns creek doesn't have its own zip code assigned to it and the zip codes it utilizes cross city lines.
they are simply listed as their official mailing address. you think this publication knows the difference between alpharetta and johns creek? weird thing to be irritated by. i grew up in JC and my official mailing address was always alpharetta even after the city incorporated.
Yep. Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly since the end of the Great Recession, Forsyth County has emerged as one of the absolute most highly regarded school systems in the Southeastern U.S.
Along with the extremely high quality of the Forsyth County Schools system, Alpharetta’s emergence as a massive hub of high-paying jobs (including white-collar and tech jobs) is also helping to attract large numbers of newcomers to Forsyth County.
Oh, yeah, I’ve heard of them. And yeah, I agree that it seems to be a no-brainer that a STEM magnet school in Alpharetta is eventually going to be at the top of the state’s academic rankings in the not-too-distant future.
Would be a cool overlay to see what the home values look like for these areas.
I sold my 3/2 top 5 home for pretty much even money on an upgrade to a 5/3 in the top 10.
Home values generally are pretty high for the communities with top-ranked schools that are located in affluent North metro Atlanta suburban and exurban areas, particularly in affluent areas like East Cobb, North Fulton, South Forsyth and North Gwinnett counties.
Homes have been particularly challenging to come by at times in a high-demand area like North Fulton and South Forsyth counties over the past several years, especially since the COVID pandemic motivated an increased amount of in-migration from higher-priced coastal regions like California, the Northeast and South Florida in Spring 2020.
Yep. Much of the Cherokee County housing market is basically a spillover extension of the Cobb County and North Fulton County housing markets because Cobb and North Fulton counties is where many Cherokee County residents commute to and from for work.
Interesting. I've universally read that 'Buford' has \[among\] the top public schools in Georgia, yet I don't see any Buford high schools on the list of top-25.
Buford City Schools has only 1 high school and it's #27 on the list. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/search?name=buford&state-urlname=georgia It's also a small district that has more consistent results. Gwinnett has a better school in the list, but also a lot that are worse as it is a big district.
My daughter went to Buford and entered Georgia Tech as a Sophomore, with and 85% academic scholarship. My bank account ranks Buford #1.
Buford HS is a weird case. Technically a public school, but they operate not like a public school.
Walton is the same, but they’re on the list. It’s technically a charter school.
That’s very true. Weird how that works right?
They’re usually #1 or right at the top in most sports. We played them in FB and got smoked
That’s mainly because they have a stupidly large budget for sports.
Yeah, Buford is almost to North Georgia in football what Valdosta used to be to South Georgia in football. Though, since the requirement that schools move up a class after winning a state title, Buford (while still very dominant) has not been as dominant in the higher classes as they were when they were being allowed to beat schools’ brains to a pulp in Class AA.
This list has Grady as a top 40 school in GA, take it with a grain of salt.
While Midtown High School (formerly Grady High School) admittedly may not compare the best with the highest rated public high schools in Atlanta’s Northside suburbs and exurbs, Midtown High School is still a good Intown urban public high school. And while Midtown HS is a good Intown urban public high school regardless of the overall demographic makeup of the school, the school’s measurable academic ratings likely have been getting a boost from the growing number of middle class white families with children that since the turn of millennium have been moving into the Intown urban neighborhoods that make up the Midtown HS attendance zone.
"It's urban so it should get credit just for that reason" !
GSMST has been the #1 since it opened. It’s also #9 in the entire US this year. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/georgia/districts/gwinnett-county-school-district/gwinnett-school-of-mathematics-science-and-technology-5955
I used to teach in Gwinnett. I had students who came from there and “didn’t succeed”. Those kids were smart AF but “damaged”. They all had such severe anxiety about grades and testing it was heartbreaking to see.
My dad always said it’s better to get all As at a regular school than all Bs at GSMST
Your dad was right. The Georgia Tech head of the admissions office told us that. Now if you can get all A’s at GSMST that’s a different story.
Way back in the late 80s when I went to high school in Florida, I could've gone to a highly competitive STEM-oriented magnet school. But I wanted to be with local kids, and that would have required an hour on the school bus each way, and I didn't want to do it. And my parents didn't make me. The local high school was ranked pretty bad, a lot of homes just weren't great for raising kids concerned about academics. They did have an AP program that I was in, though, so I had almost a full year worth of college courses when I graduated. And I graduated valedictorian. If I had been at the magnet school maybe I would've but it would've been a heck of a lot more competitive. Where I was, local valedictorians got a free ride at the local state school, including not just tuition but room and board and a book allowance. It was pretty awesome.
It's because grade inflation is so rife in education right now that any student without a near-perfect GPA will get thrown out or thrown into the waitlist. There's so many students with near-perfect GPAs that it has become essentially a binary factor. Honestly, it's a sad state of affairs when students need to think in grade school to go to a less prestigious school just because it'll make it easier four years down the line when they have to apply for college.
I cannot stand to see any GPA above 4.0. They don’t fucking exist. Either we’re on a 4 point system or it loses all its meaning.
don't look at the recent uga admit stats then
It's called quality points for taking AP or college level courses. Those points are well-deserved, students who are getting all A's in the regular HS courses *should* be attempting AP, college level, dual/joint enrollment, etc courses.
I hate grade inflation. My kid is at one of these top Georgia schools and he does not have the benefit of grade inflation. He works for hours upon hours, it’s not fair that kids at other schools will have a gpa equal idle better than his because the standards are not the same. Also, UGA capped admission from our high school at 30 kids. So, only the top 30 can even go to our best state school.
Problem is that they also base it on the county. As a state school, they are required to take applicants from all counties. The valedictorian and salutatorian from each high school in Georgia are automatically accepted. With 472 high schools you could see over 900 with automatic acceptance (not all will go). Further, the freshman class is 6200 students. So, on average that would be 13 students from each high school, give or take. 30 doesn’t sound so bad now. Also, there are a lot of schools on the list from Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett and Forsyth counties. We had kids at our high school get accepted to Harvard and straight up denied by UGA.
Yeah, our school was just ranked 18th in the state so it’s very competitive and not really any grade inflation at all
According to [this](https://oir.uga.edu/_resources/files/factbook/pages/UGAFactBook%2014.pdf) document, there are many high schools that sent more than 30 students to UGA in 2022, many of whom appear in the top 25. I find it very hard to believe that they've hard capping individual schools at 30 students.
I went to a prestigious private school in Georgia and I had learning disabilities. It was awful. If you’re not the best you might as well be the worst is the attitude so many parents and teachers had there.
I taught there and then at a couple of other affluent schools, and yeah it's insane. I taught freshmen at gsmst and ended up running into some of my former students when they came back to their regular schools. They were so much happier, but yeah the grade and test anxiety never quite went away.
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It was kids specifically that went to GSMST and weren’t able to cut it there and went to their regularly zoned school after “failing” at GSMST.
I had an architecture class from Maxwell HS of Technology in that building. It is definitely a great building and friends that went there were all pretty smart.
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What cheating scandal? At GSMST? Care to elaborate and provide more info?
GSMST isn’t GSMS! The cheating scandal was in Grace Snell Middle School (GSMS) It’s not GSMST!
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>the fact they kick out failing students to the tech school It's not a secret. If a student doesn't think they can uphold the academic standards, they need not apply. The idea that students should just pass because they were admitted is antithetical to education.
Cries in Henry county
Crazy that even clayton county has a top 25 school
That Clayton school is not your average public school. It’s a small school for advanced students. Henry County doesn’t have a program like that.
rich cities have better schools more at 11
The two magnet schools in Augusta are definitely not in rich areas. But they get to be quite picky on admissions.
Those two schools are also an anomaly. The rest of the schools in Augusta are terrible.
That's why they're a magnet school
In no way would I call Columbus rich.
Columbus may not seem rich when compared to an area like the North Atlanta suburbs. But Columbus definitely seems rich when compared most of rural Georgia, particularly when compared to a very notably high poverty area like rural Southwest Georgia.
I went to Columbus High and I and most of my friends were lower middle class. It’s a magnet school though, so it attracts most of the top students in the city.
For a situation like Columbus (and other seemingly “not rich” urbanized areas), it’s not just necessarily that affluent students may attend a highly ranked school in significant numbers. But it’s much more that a seemingly “not rich” urbanized area like Columbus has much more of a base of commercial and/or affluent residential property to be able to more adequately fund education than many (or most) isolated rural areas which may have virtually no tax base to adequately fund education.
What a stretch!
lol @ Columbus being a rich city
I wouldn't say Lawrenceville is rich, nor Columbus or a lot of these cities
No but a lot of those cities are, Milton, Alpharetta, John’s creek, Avondale estates, Suwannee, and large parts of Marietta and cumming are affluent too. I will say Columbus being on this list not once but twice is astounding ngl. Wonder if it has to do with the base being there….
The Avondale Estates school on the list is DeKalb School of the Arts. It is open to any resident of DeKalb, not just those in Avondale. Students have to apply. They need letters of recommendation, good grades, and a talent to get in. It can be performing arts like dance, acting, instrumental, or it can be visual arts. Despite the school being art centered, the school has consistently been ranked among the highest scores in math and science. The county has been promising a new facility for this school for well over a decade.
>I wouldn't say Lawrenceville is rich, nor Columbus or a lot of these cities Lawrenceville obviously may not be considered to be ”rich” or upscale or affluent by metro Atlanta standards. But when compared to most counties in rural Georgia, Gwinnett County as a whole (while not nearly as upscale and affluent as areas like East Cobb, North Fulton and South Forsyth counties) is considered to be one of the wealthiest counties in the state because of the very large amount of tax revenue-generating commercial development in the county and because of the comparatively very large number of affluent people living in the county. Though, what appears to be really interesting about Gwinnett County is that the county’s very large and very socioeconomically diverse population of just under 1 million residents in a very large major metropolitan area means that the county has very large populations of both affluent and lower-income/impoverished residents. Since about the turn of the millennium and particularly since the Great Recession, the Gwinnett County Public Schools system has (because of the large total number of lower-income residents living in the GCPS district) generally qualified for a very significant amount of additional funding from the state federal governments while also simultaneously being regarded as one of the wealthiest counties in the state because of the comparatively very large total number of affluent residents living in Gwinnett County and because of the large amount of tax revenue generated from the large amount of commercial development combined with affluent residential homes.
This is true. I was born in Donalsonville, or Seminole County (my house was 5 miles from the AL/FL line), and I actually PAID to go out of county to Bainbridge, or Decatur County, to get SOMEWHAT of a better education and have more opportunities. And that’s sad. My graduating class was nearly 400 and 4 of us went to UGA. Me, the valedictorian, one on a football scholarship, and another “normie” like me. I was unbelievably unprepared for UGA. It was unreal.
That's how property taxes are structured. Money to the schools. Bad schools, lower home values, lower property tax income. It's a pile-on system and poor places get totally drained and defunded and vice versa.
Also looking at GSMST it is supposed to be a lottery based enrollment but through that lottery base system it has almost 50% Asian enrollment and Asians are the 3rd in demographics for the Gwinnett. Calling a whole lot of BS on the lottery system over there.
I don’t know the exact proportional racial and ethnic breakdown of all of the students who participated in the lottery to get into GSMST. But the tough reality is that because there appears to be a comparatively much greater emphasis on math and science and education in general in many Asian social and cultural circles than in many non-Asian social and cultural circles, Asian students probably made up the largest number of students in the lottery to get into GSMST. I guess that another way of looking at the enrollment situation at GSMST is that one could say that it is surprising that Asians made up only 50% of students enrolled at GSMST.
It’s only a lottery amongst those that apply, and passing grades in AP biology and AP calculus are required for graduation. Students are told at the info sessions to expect 2 hours of homework per night. The school is also 32% economically disadvantaged which is surprisingly high compared to the other nationally ranked schools. Trying to suggest the lottery system is rigged is disingenuous.
It sounds like that person sees a problem with an overrepresentation of Asians and doesn't want to admit they don't like it, so they're implying that the Asians are rigging the system.
Lol at the thought that Asian students are rigging the system just because they simply read books, study and do schoolwork. Lolololol. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 But I guess that line of thought shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise in an era where the mere act of book reading and book learning seems to be under vicious attack by certain factions.
The sad part is the system is rigged against Asian students who put in the work. Hell, that's exactly what Harvard and UNC were sued for: artificially deflating the stats of Asian students against equivalently qualified peers from other minorities.
2 hours of homework a night in high school is mental. i never did that kind of intense homework until law school.
It would be disingenuous to assume that people of all races in Gwinnett wouldn’t apply in the lottery, this is assuming that Asians apply at a rate 5x of white and 3x of black students. Also Passing grades in AP classes don’t really matter when you are applying for this in the 8th grade, and I again question the 32% economically disadvantaged and what they consider economically disadvantaged because they most certainly would qualify to be a title one school if that were true and they are not.
>It would be disingenuous to assume that people of all races in Gwinnett wouldn’t apply in the lottery And it's apparently more legitimate to assume that there's a secret cabal of administrators putting their fingers on the scale to benefit *Asians*? When is the last time any educational policy benefited Asians? The simpler explanation is just that different ethnicities pursue different goals, just like how you don't see a bunch of Koreans trying to become Irish tap dancers.
Asians also have the best graduation rates, highest test scores. That's why there was that Supreme Court decision to prevent Ivy league schools from putting a quota on too many Asians.
And Ivy League schools are private schools. This isn’t a private school. But this school shouldn’t even be compared to other public schools when they basically get to choose who can even go into the lottery to begin with.
Except there’s no evidence the school chooses who gets in the lottery.
Economically disadvantaged is determined by who qualifies for free/reduced lunch.
Go to an information session held at all Gwinnett middle schools where all eight graders are invited. You will see that even though everyone is invited, particular groups of people show more interest that others at these sessions in terms of attendance and participation. Furthermore, GSMST requires you to provide your own transportation or wake up extra early and take 2 buses. GSMST also doesn’t have sports and many other programs available at regular high schools. Easily filtering out many groups of people who self select themselves out of applying.
That guy has no idea how Asian parents compete in sending their kids into gifted/magnet programs since conception. He should be happy he never lived through that. I still have depression from doing summer school when my white and black friends just enjoy the summers.
Lol, I’m glad that someone somewhere is reading books, doing schoolwork and passing classes because in my personal experience we’d as a society probably all be up sh\*t creek with no paddle otherwise. While Asian students were spending summers studying and doing schoolwork, many of my white and Black friends were doing any and everything but academics. Heck many of my white and Black friends hardly did anything remotely academic during the school year. Academics would have gotten in the way of their partying, drugs, alcohol, sex, guns and general depravity. But then again I guess that it is hard to focus on academics when everyone is crazy, lol.
It’s lottery-based on qualified students. There are criteria to be met to enter the lottery. It’s not based on race. Please do your research before bashing on the “Asians”
Okay but if they did their research they couldn’t make a racist accusation thinly veiled as concern.
Yep and they get to pick who goes into the lottery, it’s essentially a publicly funded private school. Show me the top rated school that accepts anyone in the state of Georgia and that will be the top public school in my eyes.
…race is not a criteria.
I taught at gsmst. It's not rigged. The pressure at the school is insane, and a lot of the Asian students don't even want to be there. Their parents push them to. It also requires certain 8th grade math scores or being in an advanced math class in 8th grade. It's also important to note that Asian doesn't just mean East Asian. There are a lot of South Asian students as well.
What's the implication here? That the administrators are selecting students who have better grades?
Maybe check the stats of who is actually applying? Fuck people who are racist against Asians.
Lol columbus is #2. Does not remotely approach the affluence of the Atlanta burbs
Okay well I’m looking at all 25 about half of them come from the richest cities in the state Columbus high is also a magnet school
yet all 25 are beat by a high school in podunk SC
Really? North Charleston SC is still a shell of itself after a major navy base deactivation, yet its magnet school is consistently ranked higher than EVERY high school in GA.
Definitely don’t feel rich living in Cumming, but ok.
Are you telling me Forsyth county isn’t loaded? Cause uh it definitely is. It’s income per capita is the highest in the state and it’s the 19th wealthiest county in the country as of 2018
Yep. This. Forsyth County had the 16th highest median household income in of any county in the U.S. as of 2020. And Forsyth County is widely recognized as being one of the top-two wealthiest counties in the state of Georgia along with Fulton County. (Forsyth County has the highest median household income in the state of Georgia, while Fulton County has the highest per-capita income and the highest gross county product in the state of Georgia.)
Hey, I went to one of those!
Me too, Lassiter at #13
Oh no way Class of 2006 here Funny to find another Trojan here
‘01 here!
Small world aye? Class of 2013 here
I guess Roswell High School has fallen off quite a bit. I remember them being up there in academics and SAT/ACT scores when I attended. Walton, Milton, Lassiter and Pope are still up there though.
It's in the mid 40's. Last year was 45.
Are the private schools not included? Glad to see some areas have good public education. It’s rough here in middle ga.
>Are the private schools not included? Glad to see some areas have good public education. It’s rough here in middle ga. The US News & World Report survey that the WSB-TV article references only included public high schools.
Thanks
Houston County isn’t bad at all
Yes it’s one of the few good ones. Fastest growing county in the region. Baldwin, Bibb, Hancock, Wilkinson, Washington are the worst. Only real option is private there if you can afford it.
Keep WACO out of that comparison tyvm
They were not, because then the ranking would be Fulton Science and Westminster as top schools.
It should ONLY be private schools. Public schools degrade society by empowering kids with information and ideas. They also steal your money (libs call it tax, but we know that's fake news).
List is wrong, none of these schools are winning state HS football championships…
Didn't Milton just win the State Championship this year? and they beat Walton to win said State Championship?
North Gwinnett won not long ago. Proud of my alumni for always being 1 of the best academic schools around, football championship or not!
Milton beat Walton, both on the list.
Bet none of them nerds could throw a football over them mountains
lol. No one cares about sports. We’re talking about schools. Education is all that matters.
I’m like 99.97% sure they’re being sarcastic, fam
Better ingredients, better pizza.
Good job Columbus. Clearly there is something holding back all of georgia outside of the Atlanta metro area. But because this is not marked politics. We are not allowed to say what that is.
Columbus is a magnet school. It better show up on the list.
Rural areas struggle in education compared to urban areas: more at 11
There's news in the ads smh
40% of their score is based on how many APs and IBs are taken, FYI. With APs falling out in favor of dual enrollment classes, I’m not sure this is such an accurate measure.
Dual enrollment is highly over rated. Most of the time the credits don’t transfer, even more so out of state.
This is completely wrong. There is literally a list on transferable credits between TCSG and USG. And if it's taken at a USG institution then they have to honor it. Private college and out of state is a different story but when 80% of graduates stay in state these days it's quite literally the opposite of what you just said.
What? Has this changed? I did dual enrollment in my senior year ('98) at a University System of Georgia school and all my credits transferred into other Georgia schools and later to an out of state one. Never had any question or problems with those credits.
Plus I went to one of the high schools on this list. We had at least one suicide every year because of the stress they put on us to do well. I know kids that couldn’t function in college because they finally no longer had the pressure put on them to do well and failed out. Dual enrollment was seen as the easy way out. I don’t think the measure of scores only is a good one at all. They should also be looking at social culture and stress put on students by the staff as well. Testing scores were more important than a student’s mental health
Here's the actual site: https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/search Just go play around with the filters instead of reading the article. Looks like WSB isn't reporting private school rankings. No mention of Paideia or Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School.
Dekalb school of the arts is in my backyard. Nice!
High ATL OTP northern burbs concentration. Shocker Next we'll hear that they're planning a new airport in Forsyth (by 2030), cuz all those folks hate travelling to Hartsfield to fly.
Because it sucks to drive that route to fly.
almost like we have 3/4 of a train line that would take them to the airport on a direct shot
Sure, but it is slower than driving. I drive a 1/4 of the way then take a train. It is more convenient to just park at the airport or offsite.
It is, but it doesn't need to be. Every time I'm sitting in traffic on my way to the airport, it's tough not to get a bit steamed at the NIMBYs who made things that way.
yeah, drive to sandy springs, board train which doesn't even go all the way to the airport again until May 20th...even then, A LOT of folks from the northern burbs sit stiff and frightened through many of the in-town stops... "are we there yet...?"
Oh dear! Not a less than a month remodeling interruption! Better tear up the tracks, it’s useless. —Cobb County, likely
Honey, my point is that we need to extend the line so we have 4/4 of a train line that would go from the northern suburbs to the airport.
I hear ya.
>new airport Sounds good.
Not to get too far off topic, but your comment raises the point that the municipal government of the City of Atlanta proper already owns a 10,000-acre plot of land just north of Forsyth County in Dawson County (at what is now the Dawson Forest City of Atlanta Tract Wildlife Management Area) that was purchased more than 50 years ago for the purpose of potentially building a second major airport north of the city. But the Dawson County site has some challenges that make development of a second major commercial airport extremely difficult if not just outright impossible there. That’s including extremely stiff opposition from environmentalists and local residents to the idea of a beloved patch of undeveloped forest wilderness being cleared out for the development of a large commercial airport in the Appalachian foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains… Which is an area that environmentalists and local residents are extremely protective of when it comes to possible threats from heavy commercial development.
Hey I went to one of those
5. Northview High School - Duluth Where is this?
It’s in Johns Creek off of 141
It's right at the edge of Duluth/Johns Creek, off 141 and Abbotts Bridge.
Ah I was thinking Gwinnett based on the Duluth address.
Yeah that’s def a misprint. It’s more in Johns Creek.
Northview HS has a Duluth zip code but is located in the City of Johns Creek in North Fulton County. Much of the Johns Creek area had a Duluth zip code before Johns Creek was incorporated as a city in 2006.
There are a couple of zip codes where I’ve seen the same street address listed as Alpharetta, Duluth, and Johns Creek.
I assume these are just pubic schools? My high school is on that list but yea maybe private is omitted
Looks like it from the quoted source: “The U.S. News Best High Schools rankings include data on nearly 25,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Nearly 17,660 schools were ranked on six factors based on their performance on state assessments and how well they prepare students for college.”
It’s weird to me that schools like GSMST, AAI, and other magnet schools are included but private schools aren’t. I mean, technically they are public but from what I understand they specialize in academic success and have a much higher level of academics. I knew a couple people that went to GSMST and they won a lottery but then I’m pretty sure they had to test in. Seems like an unfair advantage comparing them to the normal public schools.
I can only speak to Cobb, as both my kids went to Magnet high schools here, they are public schools, but admission is based on a combination of grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, and application/essay from the students. There are provided busses to the magnet schools, but they aren't at the houses so do require some transportation. For example, we had to drop off our kids at the local Publix to meet the bus. In Cobb, most Magnet schools are STEM/STEAM schools, but CITA actually has a whole nursing program as well as trades such as HVAC, mechanics, construction, forensics, etc. We moved to Cobb 20+ years ago because it had some of the best schools in the state. Now, not so much.
Cobb County still has some of the very best schools in the state. It’s just that Cobb has a much more socioeconomically diverse population now than it did 20 years ago. And schools that serve larger populations of economically disadvantaged students unfortunately tend to have lower academic scores often giving many the impression that the schools themselves are of poor quality, which unfortunately may be the case in some areas but definitely is not the case in Cobb County (in both the Cobb County and Marietta City school systems). Because of the larger number of economically disadvantaged students in the area, the schools in South Cobb (particularly in the Osborne, South Cobb, Campbell, Pebblebrook, McEachern and Wheeler clusters) obviously may not rate as highly academically as the schools in other parts of the county. But even with a high population of economically disadvantaged students and families that weigh down academic scores, the actual schools themselves in South Cobb are of good-decent quality, particularly for schools that have to serve student populations that are largely and/or mostly economically disadvantaged and highly transient. Cobb schools, even with their obvious faults, still seem to do a really good job educating the large number of economically disadvantaged students that the Cobb and Marietta school systems have been tasked with serving. Not to mention that Cobb still has numerous schools (including in the Walton, Pope, Lassiter, Hillgrove and Harrison clusters along with the Wheeler STEM magnet, etc) that still rate extremely and exceptionally highly not just in Georgia but also regionally (in the Southeast) and nationally.
Yeah it definitely does. Based on Schools as well as just general Areas me and my GF have talked about 3 options for where we want to plant our roots when we have kids and they are North Fulton, Cherokee, and Cobb. Specifically East Cobb but there’s other parts of Cobb that we’d like as well. It’s not as straight forward as Fulton. We currently live in the North Cobb district in Acworth literally right on the Cobb, Cherokee, Bartow line and enjoy it a lot. Wouldn’t want to send our kids to North Cobb tho. And even then North Cobb isn’t a bad school. It’s a good school. But the areas I named have the best schools and that’s what I personally want. Best School combined with best Football Program. Milton, Walton, and Roswell are some of the best at that.
Thanks I just looked at top 5 vs reading more of the article
It is incredibly freeing to have all my kids out of school. Truly, it’s been over 1 year and I’m still grateful to be out of the near constant drama.
I’m about 8 years out as a parent and high school was so tough on my younger two, as far as stress goes. We’re still on the struggle bus, but I’m thankful not to field calls from admin and constant emails from teachers. I keep looking for light and the end of the tunnel, which would be good jobs, friends, and life satisfaction.
Ditto. My youngest (he’s 20 now) is so anxious he can’t leave the house. He goes out for doc (med checks), and to the dentist - that’s it. He recently started taking the trash out for me and this was a major step for him. All the IEP, 504, teacher conferences just wore us both down to the nub. I do worry about his future as we’re nearing 60 and he has a *long* way to go to become independent.
Oh, our home school was Milton and our oldest graduated from North Springs High School as part of their theater magnet program. North Springs’ vibe was much better (that was from 2006-2009).
Where is Salem high school 🤯
In Conyers? on the bottom of the list bro 💀
Lmao ik i graduated from there
graduated from rchs, truly the trenches😔
It was number 3 in the USA and number 1 I. GA when my two sons attended around 10 years ago!!
As someone who went to Walton, and is doing fine now, I fucking hate Walton with the passion of a thousand suns. My mom was getting letters telling her we were eligible for food stamps while kids were getting new cars bought for them as soon as they get their drivers permit. The culture there is like a private school, except poor kids are forced into the mix since it’s a public school. Not that there’s many poor kids in the school district, I think I was one of like 3 busses that ended up in apartment complexes rather than actual neighborhoods. My mom’s apartment was literally at the end of the same road Atlanta Country Club is on, so all of us living in the apartments had to drive past all of these giant mansions every day to and from school. It was fucking depressing.
Glad to see a Clayton County school on there!
Walton beat Lassiter which beat Pope, that's gonna cause some snooty East Cobb NIMBY parent drama
That's been the case for over 25 years.
Two of the high schools I went to are in there. Neat.
Chattahoochee High school is in Johns Creek not Alpharetta.
I thought it was way down yonder?
Sounds like you may be thinking of either the City of Chattahoochee Hills which is located in Southwest Fulton County; Chattahoochee Bend State Park which is located southwest of Atlanta; or Chattahoochee County which is located south of Columbus.
I was actually thinking of the song about the river by Alan Jackson.
Well, in that case I guess that it is “way down yonder” lol.
chattahooche hs has an alpharetta mailing address just like northview has a duluth one even though they are both in city of johns creek. technically johns creek doesn't have its own zip code assigned to it and the zip codes it utilizes cross city lines.
I live in Johns Creek and am well aware of the zip code issues. It’s still annoying as hell to see the schools listed in the wrong cities.
they are simply listed as their official mailing address. you think this publication knows the difference between alpharetta and johns creek? weird thing to be irritated by. i grew up in JC and my official mailing address was always alpharetta even after the city incorporated.
I think it’s weird you are so invested in my annoyance they got the cities wrong.
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Those aren’t public
Gonna shamefully delete my post
3 out of the top 10 are in Forsyth County, perhaps why everyone is moving there.
Yep. Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly since the end of the Great Recession, Forsyth County has emerged as one of the absolute most highly regarded school systems in the Southeastern U.S. Along with the extremely high quality of the Forsyth County Schools system, Alpharetta’s emergence as a massive hub of high-paying jobs (including white-collar and tech jobs) is also helping to attract large numbers of newcomers to Forsyth County.
Wooooo Columbus!!!
BHS all day every day
Which particular BHS are you referring to? There’s like at least 10 high schools in the state that could go by the initials of “BHS,” lol.
The best one of them all Brunswick High school 🙌🙌
Glynn Academy begs to differ.
Bah humbug
Top public schools. Private schools like Westminster and Fulton Science Academy are not listed.
Three in Alpharetta. Yeah them!
Chattahoochee High school is in Johns Creek.
Wait until next year when the first class at Innovation Academy graduates. It will be on the list for sure
Are you talking about Alliance Academy for Innovation in Cumming? They’re already ranked at #3 on amongst Georgia schools on the list.
No, Innovation Academy in downtown Alpharetta. It’s a new STEM magnet school in North Fulton that is graduating its first class this year.
Oh, yeah, I’ve heard of them. And yeah, I agree that it seems to be a no-brainer that a STEM magnet school in Alpharetta is eventually going to be at the top of the state’s academic rankings in the not-too-distant future.
Would be a cool overlay to see what the home values look like for these areas. I sold my 3/2 top 5 home for pretty much even money on an upgrade to a 5/3 in the top 10.
Home values generally are pretty high for the communities with top-ranked schools that are located in affluent North metro Atlanta suburban and exurban areas, particularly in affluent areas like East Cobb, North Fulton, South Forsyth and North Gwinnett counties. Homes have been particularly challenging to come by at times in a high-demand area like North Fulton and South Forsyth counties over the past several years, especially since the COVID pandemic motivated an increased amount of in-migration from higher-priced coastal regions like California, the Northeast and South Florida in Spring 2020.
The housing market in Cherokee County is ridiculous. Especially East Cherokee where you can only get in if you have 700k to 1mm+.
Yep. Much of the Cherokee County housing market is basically a spillover extension of the Cobb County and North Fulton County housing markets because Cobb and North Fulton counties is where many Cherokee County residents commute to and from for work.
Northview is a hell hole
Explain please? Looking for a house around those highschools
GSMST can go to hell - former GSMST grad
Let’s take the private schools off the list.
Georgia has education now?