Friday, April 12, 2002
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Northgate is the top high school in region By JOHN
THOMPSON Coweta County's newest high school is soaring up one list of the best high schools in the state. Northgate High School ranked number 12 in the latest report card issued by The Georgia Public Policy Foundation. This year, the report card is interactive and provides users total access to objective and statistically reliable data about Georgia's public schools. Northgate's high ranking surpassed all of the high schools in Fayette County. McIntosh in Peachtree City ranked number 13, while Starr's Mill came in at number 16. Fayette County High School was 19th, while Sandy Creek ranked 39th. East Coweta ranked 108th, while Newnan High School was number 170. The top ranked school for the second straight year was Davidson Magnet High School in Richmond County. The 2002 Report Card, available on the Internet at www.gppf.org, features an interactive database that provides an enormous amount of statistical data about Georgia's public schools. Parents can query and research the report card to help them make informed assessments about the quality of public education in our state. It is available free of charge to everyone. This year's Report Card includes the following data: district spending per student, enrollment, all test subject scores, and data disaggregated by gender, race/ethnicity, English proficiency, disability and socioeconomic status, according to the Web site. The primary measure of student achievement in the report card is the average of the percentage of students passing the reading and math sections of the 2001 Criterion-Referenced Competency Test. Upon arriving at the Web site, users will be able to access data via an electronic map, by elementary, middle or high school or by school name. Users also have the option of comparing schools by district or individually and making geographic searches. The Georgia Department of Education, the Georgia Office of Education Accountability and the National Center for Education Statistics provided the data for the report. The Foundation has been issuing the Report Card for Parents since 1996. The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a think-tank formed in 1991, is a nonpartisan, member-supported research and education foundation that promotes free markets, limited government and individual responsibility. It is the only private, nonpartisan research organization in Georgia that focuses on state policy
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