Best ACT scores at Chattahoochee and Walton high schools
Check out how students in your local high schools fared on the 2009 ACT in which the perfect score is 36 and the state average is 20.6 (The national average this year is 21.1) Fulton’s Chattahoochee led the metro area with an average composite score of 25.2, followed right behind by Cobb’s Walton.
Our tech folks have posted statewide results.
Here are the top scoring high schools in local districts:
Atlanta city: Grady scored 20.2
Cherokee: Sequoyah scored 22.7
Clayton: Jonesboro scored 18.1
Coweta: East Coweta scored 21.1
Cobb: Walton scored 25.1
DeKalb: Chamblee scored 23.3
Decatur: DHS scored 21.7
Fayette: McIntosh scored 23.7
Fulton: Chattahoochee scored 25.2
Gwinnett: Parkview scored 24
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12 comments Add your comment
oldtimer
August 19th, 2009
2:20 pm
Which of these HS did not maake AYP.
Erin
August 19th, 2009
2:46 pm
So on a scale of 1-100 percent, these averages, if divided out, means that metro Atlanta kids would be scoring between 50 and 70.
Teacher, Too
August 19th, 2009
3:49 pm
I’m curious– do private schools release this information?
mdowney
August 19th, 2009
5:38 pm
Teacher, too, The state DOE does not get private school scores for the ACT.
Maureen's accountability metric
August 19th, 2009
8:10 pm
And a pattern emerges, as seen in the 5:38pm post. The cupcake questions?
They get a response.
The tough questions, the ones that raise legitimate issues of credibility, the ones that require one to defend one’s very own words?
Not so much.
In the interest of brevity, suffice to say you can go back “Brace yourself: ACT and SAT scores are coming.” and look at the 8:15am post if you want a textbook example to which I refer.
If the points made in the 8:15am post are not valid, join in with a rebuttal. Let’s have a serious discussion of what role we all, including the AJC, play in deciding what’s best for Georgia’s students.
Dr. Craig Spinks /Augusta
August 20th, 2009
1:00 am
What is the GDOE doing to disseminate information about effective practices at WHS and CHS to local school systems and high schools throughout our state? Or are the folks in GDOE, without the knowledge and consent of Kathy, too busy hiring their friends and relatives to high-paying consultant positions? The second is a rhetorical question: I know several GDOE consultants.
Tony
August 20th, 2009
9:11 am
The “effective practices” Dr. Spinks wants to know more about have more to do with family income than instructional practices at the schools. When all is said and done, the sole indicator that always rises to the top is the direct relationship to family income and student achievement. Study after study have shown strong evidence of this link, but we continue to ignore the elephant in the room.
JoeK
August 20th, 2009
2:48 pm
It is plain as day, the elephant in the room is not school district but the families in that district. Their education, father/no father and income will tell you the results of any standardized test.
fulton teacher
August 20th, 2009
5:26 pm
As a Northview teacher, good for our rival Chattahoochee! I have a feeling that our SAT scores will top theirs, though, and more than likely everyone else’s.
Tom
August 21st, 2009
9:12 am
When you check the school websites and see the disaggregated data, there are no surprises. Which should cause either no worries or deep concern for some. Parents should ignore the averages and pay attention to the data pertaining to their children and their demographic. The rest is beyond their control.
Lee
August 22nd, 2009
11:54 am
No Tony, the elephant in the room is race. Always has been, always will be.
Consider this:
“• Whites from families with incomes of less than $10,000 had a mean SAT score of 993. This is 129 points higher than the national mean for all blacks.
• Whites from families with incomes below $10,000 had a mean SAT test score that was 61 points higher than blacks whose families had incomes of between $80,000 and $100,000.
• Blacks from families with incomes of more than $100,000 had a mean SAT score that was 85 points below the mean score for whites from all income levels, 139 points below the mean score of whites from families at the same income level, and 10 points below the average score of white students from families whose income was less than $10,000.”
This is from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Of course, their solution is to pour even more money into black schools.
No surprise that Chattahoochee and Walton are overwhelmingly White/asian.
32 Years In
August 22nd, 2009
12:16 pm
Tony nailed it. I’ve been at my school for 24 years and as our community ages and our SES changes, our test scores have started to descend. That, coupled with the addition of several special education programs, we will not make AYP this year. That special education subset will probably be the cause as it has been an issue the last two years.
This is a school that has had a fairly consistent faculty of teachers with some minor changes and just now starting some retirements. We haven’t bought in to the ridiculous fads in education but continue to close our doors and carry forth with good, solid teaching. (As much as our county requirements will let us!) The recent change in the children’s behavior and attitudes about education is in glaring contrast to what we were working with just 5 years ago.
Success is largely determined by home support and attitudes about education, not some “magic pill” being distributed by the school. Throw that in with teachers who believe in teaching the person, not the test, and you will have successful students who can exhibit reasoning skills, as well as passing a ridiculous multiple choice test.