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Study: These public, private Cobb schools are among Georgia’s best

Walton High School Advanced Placement Biology teacher Tina Link, center, demonstrates how to steady her hand while using a micro pipette to students in 2014. Walton earned the No. 7 spot on Niche’s ranking of 2017’s best high schools in Georgia.
Walton High School Advanced Placement Biology teacher Tina Link, center, demonstrates how to steady her hand while using a micro pipette to students in 2014. Walton earned the No. 7 spot on Niche’s ranking of 2017’s best high schools in Georgia.
By Ben Brasch
Feb 10, 2017

In what should come as a shock to few Cobbers, some of the county's schools were recently named among the best in Georgia.

Cobb made it as high as the seventh spot in the ranking of Georgia’s 100 best public high schools by Niche, a school and neighborhood review website.

Niche analyzed data from more than two dozen sources — ranging from federal education agencies to FBI data to surveys of their own — to create the list. The group's website breaks down its methods.

Here are the public schools the ranking recognized:

Etowah High School was Cherokee County's highest-ranked school at 39.

Of the 100 private schools analyzed, Cobb's best held the 19th spot. The organiation explained how it ranked private schools, too.

Here are the private schools the ranking recognized:

You can find information about your school, such as test scores, graduation rates and school climate rating at the Ultimate Atlanta School Guide.

About the Author

Ben Brasch is the reporter tasked with keeping Fulton County government accountable. The Florida native moved to Atlanta for a job with The AJC. If there's something important to you going on in Fulton, he wants to know about it. Help him better metro Atlanta by dropping a line, anonymously or otherwise.

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