Quite a few metro area schools made Newsweek magazine's annual list of top high schools nationwide. The magazine highlighted 1,623 schools based on "how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests." Six percent of public schools made the list including 45 from metro Atlanta.
The top 10 metro schools and where they placed:
79. Walton (Cobb)
148. Riverwood (Fulton)
186. North Gwinnett (Gwinnett)
199. South Forsyth (Forsyth)
240. Berkmar (Gwinnett)
248. DeKalb School of the Arts (DeKalb)
295. Chamblee Charter (DeKalb)
313. Milton (Fulton)
345. Alpharetta (Fulton)
347. Wheeler (Cobb)
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