wow not a single wilson county high school

5/22/2007 1:37:13 PM

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"152 North Mecklenburg"

Aww, my first high school.

5/22/2007 1:41:13 PM

What up Providence!

5/22/2007 1:47:42 PM

MUSTANGS WHAT WHAT

5/22/2007 1:50:59 PM

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"granted it was close, but reynolds always had more people in AP classes than tabor did that would be why they are higher"

I always remembered having just as many if not more West Forsyth students in my AP classes. Maybe all the Tabor kids took AP Englishes and Histories, though.

5/22/2007 1:54:02 PM

This list is absolute BS. Charlotte public high schools are a joke (with maybe 2-3 exceptions), and I see very few Wake County schools...where the heck is Apex, Leesville Road, or Green Hope? THose schools are ten times better than most schools out there. VANCE?? GARINGER?? Give me a break...

5/22/2007 2:00:09 PM

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"294 Charles E. Jordan"

I remember Jordan being a lot higher.

5/22/2007 2:01:59 PM

^^seriously...garinger? i mean i love charlotte but garinger is ass...and somehow they're in the top 500?

5/22/2007 2:14:23 PM

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"Hose schools are ten times better than most schools out there. VANCE?? GARINGER?? Give me a break..."

that is what i said on page 1, including East Meck. Watch West Charlotte be #48 on the list next year

5/22/2007 2:38:02 PM

At least Millbrook consistently holds is down on Drug Arrests. Holla!

5/22/2007 2:42:01 PM

80. Western Guilford
How the hell is this possible i graduated from there last year and the school sucked, crappy teachers dirty hallways, lots of violence it sucked
528. Eastern Guilford
This school burned down, while very sad, dont see how it could make the list

5/22/2007 2:43:45 PM

Any ranking system that requires a 7 page FAQ on how it works can't be that meaningful: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18728337/site/newsweek/

5/22/2007 2:44:09 PM

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"how's Leesville not on that list?"

not that I really care

5/22/2007 2:54:44 PM

i had gotten happen until...

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"471 Rose"

cocksuckers.

5/22/2007 5:19:31 PM

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"Charlotte public high schools are a joke (with maybe 2-3 exceptions)"

hahaha, BS

Seriously, I'm not surprised to see North Meck on that list at all.

[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 5:39 PM. Reason : South Meck, on the other hand, is a crazy choice]

5/22/2007 5:38:44 PM

broughton seems to be dropping every year

no MILLBROOK?!?!?!/1

5/22/2007 6:31:24 PM

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

RJR c/o 2000, bitches!

5/22/2007 7:00:07 PM

Another Enloe alum here! Enloe isn't what it was 15 years ago, because of the proliferation of magnet high schools in Wake County. My Enloe graduating class had 42 national merit semifinalists in it, a number that will never be matched by any Wake school again, because now the talent is so much more spread out. In comparing Honors/IB programs, SE Raleigh has probably passed Enloe as the county's best public school, but SER isn't highly ranked, since a much smaller percentage of their students are in their magnet program.

5/22/2007 7:26:26 PM

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"294 Charles E. Jordan"

#283 in 2006
#190 in 2005
#181 in 2003

hmm

[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 7:52 PM. Reason : g]

5/22/2007 7:48:16 PM

what about private schools



discriminating sons of bitches

5/22/2007 8:05:48 PM

my highschool went from 700 to 1000 to 1100 to straight off the list over the past few years. was quite a good school when i attended.

5/22/2007 8:08:28 PM

the reason why Guilford has a lot of schools listed is because of Dr. Grier. He pushes students to take classes they are not necessarily able to do well in. For example, in Guilford County if you make a certain grade on the PSAT, then he says that the students is placed in AP History(unless the parent says otherwise).

There are students in AP classes that have no business being there.

[Edited on May 22, 2007 at 8:11 PM. Reason : Taught in Guilford County last year.]

5/22/2007 8:08:51 PM

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"58 Harding University"

Glad to see my old school is still up there, but they've fallen some since I went there. They were like #25 and #30 during the years I was there, 2nd only to Raleigh Charter in NC. I did hear that the student body had fallen off a little in recent years. Pretty much everyone in the top 75 at my school went to State, UNC, Duke, Davidson, University of Chicago, UPenn, Rutgers, Tennessee and some other high profile schools, unless they were saving money by staying home and going to UNCC, got a lot of scholarship money from a lesser known school, or their family wanted them to go to their alma mater like App, ECU, etc. I will say this pretty much all of the other kids after the top 100 out of the 300 students in my senior class were dumbasses. The top 100 were all fairly smart kids and could have gone to a lot of the other Charlotte area schools and been top 15 or so. I agree with one of the earlier comments that a lot of the Charlotte schools are a joke, with a few exceptions (Meyers Park, Harding, and Providence).

I will say that most of the Wake county people I've met have been smart and well prepared for college, but then again I pretty much met all of them at State or through friends that went to Chapel Hill, so I haven't really ever met the so-called dumb ones.

5/22/2007 10:13:31 PM

439 Garinger

yea total bullshit

this highschool was about to be shut down this year for poor preformance

my dad went there in the 70s, he would always tell me about race riots and cop heli's landing on campus

that has nothing to do with it now i guess, but i remember reading a long piece in the charlotte observer about it, and a couple other highschool in charlotte being shut down

5/22/2007 10:28:49 PM

I don't count any school from any school system that hasn't made a decent attempt at integration.

Yeah, so, uh, I guess that leaves Wake County schools.

SUCK IT!

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"Golovko: 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."

So it became like Enloe, the 53rd school on the list?

5/22/2007 11:15:26 PM

En-loc reprezent!

5/22/2007 11:35:02 PM

^ im with you there

5/22/2007 11:58:20 PM

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"Pretty much everyone in the top 75 at my school went to State, UNC, Duke, Davidson, University of Chicago, UPenn, Rutgers, Tennessee and some other high profile schools,"

i am not saying they are not good accredited universities but i do not see how you can place NCSU or UNC in the same caliber as Davidson/UPenn/Rutgers.

5/22/2007 11:59:06 PM

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"Guilford County has that shit on lockdown!"

Yep. Page (#254) representin!


And FYI, the reason nearly every school in Guilford county makes the list is because of the Weaver Center. It's not an actual school, but the entire county feeds into it for AP and trade courses. Because of Weaver, I got to take a LOT of courses in high school that wouldn't have ever been offered elsewhere.

I had several friends who entered college with 50-55 credit hours (I came in with 27 and barely did anything in HS). And a LOT of the kids (at least circa 1999) were Western Guilford students.

5/23/2007 2:26:50 AM

this rating metric is bullshit.

its a gimmick to sell magazines.

5/23/2007 2:41:32 AM

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"80. Western Guilford How the hell is this possible i graduated from there last year and the school sucked, crappy teachers dirty hallways, lots of violence it sucked"

yeah son that school sucks

5/23/2007 10:27:53 AM

Enloe; what, what!

5/23/2007 2:44:51 PM

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"150 Robinson Secondary ** Fairfax"

5/23/2007 3:09:46 PM

This list is outdated or something, Regan opened a year or two ago and took RJR's principal and most of their best teachers, leaving Reynolds as a complete joke.

5/23/2007 3:13:11 PM

new, updated list
http://tinyurl.com/yw6k9w

5/23/2007 3:33:27 PM

1189 Dudley

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"CapnObvious: Worst Metric Ever "

Yeah, it should at least be proportional to the average score per AP/IB exam per student. If you have 1000 people take AP English, and they all fail, then your school sucks.

5/23/2007 3:37:31 PM

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"yeah son that school sucks"

and

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"1189 Dudley "

Read my post. All the Guilford country schools are inflated.

5/23/2007 4:31:46 PM

Watauga is too low.

5/23/2007 6:32:06 PM

Raleigh charter is on the top for a reason- the average student takes like 5-6 AP classes. I took 8, and having only 6 classes a year makes it both easy to handle 4/yr but also means less electives. I'm not saying we had the best teachers or curriculum or w/e but we do well in this ranking system (of course I think we were the best ). Plus we're only college prep, so most people who can't keep up transfer out by soph year (about 7 from my class). That said, we could do a little better...

5/23/2007 9:21:30 PM

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"254 Mount Tabor"

w00t!

5/23/2007 9:42:44 PM

lol 1204/1257

North Davidson, we have football! Kind of! And we made a list!


god I'm glad to be outta there

5/23/2007 10:36:28 PM

I'd like to see a metric that accounts for disparities between the highest and lowest achieving students.

Because a lot of these schools are seriously polarized; 1/3 of the school are elite, 2/3 of the school are utter wastes of space, and the only place the two sides see each other is at lunch. There are a couple schools in NC on this list that I wouldn't bother teaching in unless they guaranteed me an honors or AP position.

5/23/2007 10:51:29 PM

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"1204 North Davidson"

BLACK KNIGHTS barely IN THE HOUSE

^ and screw football, it's a softball school

[Edited on May 24, 2007 at 1:26 AM. Reason : ]

5/24/2007 1:23:37 AM

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"it's a softball school"

haha

5/24/2007 12:44:16 PM

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools employee and an 06 grad of RJ Reynolds. I agree with whoever said that the list is outdated though, Reynolds was better than Tabor, i'm not sure about that now though, Reynolds is going downhill fast. Watch out for Reagan High in the coming years, thats gonna be the school. Anyone in this forum that went to Reynolds knows that Elrod was what kept that school going.

5/24/2007 12:56:37 PM

How is Garner not on that list?

5/24/2007 1:23:54 PM

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"And FYI, the reason nearly every school in Guilford county makes the list is because of the Weaver Center. It's not an actual school, but the entire county feeds into it for AP and trade courses. Because of Weaver, I got to take a LOT of courses in high school that wouldn't have ever been offered elsewhere."

Same thing goes for the Forsyth county schools. Career Center makes it possible for that county to have several AP classes that would never make it in the individual home schools.

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"Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools employee and an 06 grad of RJ Reynolds. I agree with whoever said that the list is outdated though, Reynolds was better than Tabor, i'm not sure about that now though, Reynolds is going downhill fast. Watch out for Reagan High in the coming years, thats gonna be the school. Anyone in this forum that went to Reynolds knows that Elrod was what kept that school going. "

The man was a serious politician, but it got the job done.

5/24/2007 2:13:37 PM

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"Because a lot of these schools are seriously polarized; 1/3 of the school are elite, 2/3 of the school are utter wastes of space, and the only place the two sides see each other is at lunch."

after they redid the school zones in charlotte this is what happened to east meck. all the middle class suburban kids in matthews went to butler or providence in 2002 instead. What remained was a bunch of inner city thugs and white trash but you still had a few wealthy neighborhoods in the district as well as a highly accredited IB program that still attracted go-getter students. i was a senior at this point and figured i might as well stick it out versus going to a Butler my last year.

5/24/2007 2:16:27 PM

i really don't understand how Leesville isn't on that list

5/24/2007 2:17:19 PM

of the 25 high schools in my county 23 are on the list

16 are in the top 200

the two that are missing - one is brand new and one is excluded because they have admission requirements (public school but funky magnet shit)

does this mean i am smart?

5/25/2007 12:12:06 AM