Top Georgia high school changes admissions requirement

The Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology — typically ranked among the nation's best and most challenging high schools — is making a key change to its admissions requirements.

The school, in Lawrenceville, will require incoming students to have completed an algebra class to be enrolled there.

The school will still have a lottery, scheduled Feb. 8, to determine which students will be accepted. Gwinnett officials said the algebra requirement change means the school will no longer be a charter school, the AJC's Get Schooled columnist, Maureen Downey, reported. As a charter school, GSMST could not set academic admissions requirements.

In 2015, the school had the best mean total SAT score of any public high school in Georgia.

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