Newsweek named Parkview High School among the top 500 high schools in the nation this week.
The magazine enlisted a panel of experts to rate the country’s best high schools, finding Parkview to be No. 429. Parkview was one of just two schools in the county to make the list. Brookwood High School in Snellville was the other school. Also, there were just 12 schools across the state to receive the distinction as one of the nation's top high schools.
The Newsweek panel is composed of Wendy Kopp of Teach for America; Tom Vander Ark of Open Education Solutions and the former executive director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford professor and founder of School Redesign Network. The panel rates the schools based on their rates of graduation, college matriculation, advanced-placement courses offered and taken and SAT and ACT scores, as well as AP/IB/AICE scores.
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According to Newsweek, Parkview High School has a 24.0 student-to-teacher ratio, has a 91 percent graduation rate and sends 88 percent of its graduating seniors to college. Parkview’s average SAT score was 1588.
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