http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18757087/site/newsweek/

The NC Schools are as follows (provided I don't miss any)

18 Raleigh Charter
29 Meyers Park
53 William G. Enloe
58 Harding University
80 Western Guilford
84 Grimsley
101 East Chapel Hill
114 Providence
152 North Mecklenburg
211 RJ Reynolds
220 Chapel Hill
243 High Point Central
254 Mount Tabor
265 Walter Hines Page
273 David W. Butler
283 South Mecklenburg
294 Charles E. Jordan
300 South Brunswick
318 Northwest Guilford
322 Hopewell
342 Southwest Guilford
356 West Forsyth
383 Needham Broughton
395 East Mecklenburg
439 Garinger
471 Rose
483 Andrews (High Point)
514 Olympic
528 Eastern Guilford
547 Zebulon B Vance
583 Southern Guilford
663 Salisbury
679 New Hanover
752 Northwest School of the Arts
780 Ragsdale
805 Southeast Guilford
874 Lake Norman
979 Northeast Guilford
1110 Watauga
1189 Dudley
1204 North Davidson
1253 T C Roberson



Guilford County has that shit on lockdown!

5/22/2007 3:00:21 AM

yup east chapel hill grad baby!

5/22/2007 3:17:22 AM

yea Raleigh Charter grad baby!

5/22/2007 3:36:40 AM

I almost went to Raleigh Charter. Still, while it's a fantastic place, I'm quite glad that I ended up at Southeast Raleigh, because it did wonders for loosening me up as a human being.

5/22/2007 3:41:18 AM

Yeah Southeast Raleigh grad baby!!!

oh wait

5/22/2007 3:41:34 AM

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"283 South Mecklenburg"

i would like to call bullshit on this list seeing my high school in there

5/22/2007 3:56:04 AM

lol i know what held new bern from being on this list....

5/22/2007 5:16:56 AM

I went to the link and they said the rankings were based on a ratio of AP courses/Intl. Bac/Cambridge tests over students graduating...

that automatically eliminates some small and/or rural highschools who don't have the resources for a lot of ap courses and/or international bac....
They can still be "Top" high schools, just not based on that test...
So don't be discouraged if your school isn't on it.

5/22/2007 5:44:32 AM

Broughton.

5/22/2007 6:31:35 AM

where the hell is NORTH FORSYTH yo...

5/22/2007 6:51:29 AM

No NCSSM?

5/22/2007 6:56:05 AM

I call this list BULL S*****

5/22/2007 6:57:37 AM

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"679 New Hanover"

HOLLA

5/22/2007 7:17:25 AM

Yeah...I call bullshit on that list, it doesn't have half the NC schools I expected to be on there.

5/22/2007 7:43:33 AM

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"780 Ragsdale"

shit yeah.

5/22/2007 7:45:37 AM

your search for "northern nash" provided no results


surprise surprise

5/22/2007 7:47:12 AM

how's Leesville not on that list?

5/22/2007 7:49:08 AM

Enloe

5/22/2007 7:53:35 AM

Enloe

5/22/2007 8:27:40 AM

lol that list is so gay and unimportant

5/22/2007 8:31:22 AM

yeah, water is wet too, but you don't see people talking about that.

5/22/2007 8:35:44 AM

haha how the hell did TW Andrews get on there lol

5/22/2007 8:36:28 AM

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"the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2006 divided by the number of graduating seniors"

Worst
Metric
Ever

5/22/2007 8:36:32 AM

Top public schools. A little misleading on the title there...

5/22/2007 8:52:30 AM

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"29 Meyers Park"

[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 9:09 AM. Reason : .]

5/22/2007 9:09:00 AM

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"80 Western Guilford"

hell yeah! Top 100!
Though, if AP courses figure that highly into the ranking, they must offer a shit-ton more than they did when I attended (there were a total of 8 offered the whole time I was there, 94-98).

5/22/2007 9:16:11 AM

That poll should be called "Top 1257 Schools That Offer the Most College Level Exams Per Graduating Senior."

What does that have to do with the "Top" (read: best) high schools?

5/22/2007 9:19:38 AM

Well, we always knew that Enloe was better than Broughton.

5/22/2007 9:28:47 AM

my little brother goes to western guilford. i can tell you that is nowhere near a good school.

5/22/2007 9:42:01 AM

east chapel hill

5/22/2007 9:44:24 AM

another Enloe-ite here

5/22/2007 9:48:09 AM

very misleading

[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

5/22/2007 9:53:07 AM

yeah this list sucks - a lot of schools don't even offer anything beyond AP.

5/22/2007 10:08:05 AM

southeast raleigh used to be on the list the first few years it opened. Then all the smart kids graduated and the school became like any school found in an all black neighborhood.

5/22/2007 10:17:59 AM

no Athens Drive

5/22/2007 10:25:23 AM

that list is retarded

5/22/2007 10:33:59 AM

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"395 East Mecklenburg 439 Garinger"

what a fucking joke. Maybe East Meck has a good IB program but overall the school has gone to hell. Since they redid the school zones in 2001. My cousin is a guidance counselor there now and from my younger friends that i left behind East is a straight up inner city school now. I hear stories all the time about gang fights in the bathroom, student's cars being broken into during the middle of the day, guns being found during random searches. I heard they even use metal detectors on students entering.

Then as far as Garinger if "ethnic diversity" and a high % of students on free lunch is a criteria for a "good" school then i guess Garinger fits the description. same could go for olympic too.

i do not see how either of these schools can be included yet omitting actual good schools like Providence, Charlotte Catholic, Providence Country Day, etc

[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 10:49 AM. Reason : l]

[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 10:50 AM. Reason : l]

5/22/2007 10:47:58 AM

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"i do not see how either of these schools can be included yet omitting actual good schools like Providence, Charlotte Catholic, Providence Country Day, etc"

well mostly because this is a list of public schools.

5/22/2007 10:54:34 AM

well fine Providence or NCSSM.

that list lost any credibility when it put garinger and EM in the list

5/22/2007 10:58:12 AM

nvm i overlooked Providence at 114,

but i still say that list lost all credibility when it listed East MEck and Garringer. I would not send my kids to either school

5/22/2007 10:59:01 AM

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"283 South Mecklenburg"

that place sucked balls

5/22/2007 11:02:46 AM

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"Yeah...I call bullshit on that list"

5/22/2007 11:07:43 AM

lol RJ Reynolds beat Mt. Tabor.

I totally expected it to be the other way around, and I graduated from RJR

5/22/2007 11:14:53 AM

Hibriten what?

5/22/2007 11:18:22 AM

^What? No way, Mt Tabor is crap, RJR is way better. I used to work for Winston/Salem Forsyth Co Schools and if we ever got in trouble, they would send us to Mt Tabor as punishment lol

5/22/2007 11:20:33 AM

From the time I can remember, Reynolds has been always better than Tabor. WILEY middle school represent !!!

5/22/2007 11:29:55 AM

granted it was close, but reynolds always had more people in AP classes than tabor did

that would be why they are higher

5/22/2007 11:48:07 AM

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"lol i know what held new bern from being on this list...."

What was that?

5/22/2007 1:32:37 PM

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"my little brother goes to western guilford. i can tell you that is nowhere near a good school."

How so? It was both well-regarded and safe when I went there.

5/22/2007 1:33:04 PM

ravenscroft blows away raleigh charter

5/22/2007 1:35:33 PM