Do High School Rankings Matter?
South Cobb and Pebblebrook were not ranked at all in the recent U.S. News & World Report's 2012 Best High Schools list.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Walton High School as the third top high school in Georgia on in its 2012 Best High Schools annual list. Lassiter was No. 7; Wheeler was No. 13. Nearby Campbell High School in Smyrna was ranked as No. 27 in the state followed by Marietta High School at No. 28. South Cobb and Pebblebrook high schools were not even ranked. Only 38 schools in Georgia made the magazine’s 2,008 ranked schools. Other schools were given bronze status, but were not ranked. Just how are these rankings determined? It’s a three-step process: • Step 1: The first step determined whether each school's students were performing better than statistically expected for the average student in the state. We started by looking at reading and math…
Pam J
7:38 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
I believe that rankings matter to the highest ranking and lowest ranking schools. It gives the highest ranking a reason to be proud and it gives the lowest ranking incentive to get better, hopefully. I just recently saw the graduation rates for each of Cobb's high schools, and it was somewhat depressing. I graduated from Osborne in 1971 and I am disappointed to see what has happened to it. I … more ›