North Carolina high schools are ranked 19th in overall educational quality.
There are hundreds of high schools in the state of North Carolina and hundreds of thousands of students. According to a state-by-state statistics ranking in 2009, North Carolina was ranked 19th in overall high school educational quality. The largest cities in North Carolina are Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro and Durham, and they have the largest, most well-known public high schools due to their population size.
Charlotte High Schools
Charlotte is the most populated city in North Carolina and has many high schools. The public high schools in Charlotte are Providence, Kell, Myers Park, Independence, South Mecklenburg, Mallard Creek, West Mecklenburg, East Mecklenburg, West Charlotte, Vance, Waddell, Hawthorne, Midwood, and Rocky River High School. There are other private and charter high schools as well but those are much smaller schools. Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system is one of the nation's 25 largest school districts and ranks in the top five national school districts that has the most teachers who are National Board Certified. Charlotte is also an up and coming booming metropolis, as it is the second largest banking center in the nation.
Raleigh High Schools
As the capital of North Carolina, Raleigh is densely populated as well and have a lot of well known high schools that are decades old. The list of public high schools in Raleigh are Athens Drive, Apex, Broughton, Cary, Enloe, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Green Hope, Heritage, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Leesville Road, Middle Creek, Millbrook, Panther Creek, Sanderson, Southeast Raleigh, Wake Forest-Rolesville and Wakefield. Raleigh is in Wake County, and the Wake County Public School System is the second in the state of North Carolina after Charlotte. Raleigh is also home of many successful magnet schools. Fifteen of the Raleigh Magnet Schools were honored by Magnet Schools of America as the top magnet schools in the nation.
Greensboro High Schools
The list of Greensboro public high schools is slightly smaller. The schools include Northwest Guilford, Grimsley, Northern Guilford, Page, Southeast Guilford, Western Guilford, Southern Guilford, Dudley and Smith. Greensboro is in Guilford county and has the third largest school system in the state with just over 71,000 students. Guilford County School System offers great opportunity to its students to achieve their very best. There are 18 magnet schools in the system and 4 International Baccalaureate programs which partners with other schools and universities in 140 different countries to maximize student exploration and knowledge.
Durham High Schools
Durham and Greensboro high schools are pretty comparable in size and amount. Durham public high schools include Northern, Riverside, Hillside, Southern and Jordan. Durham also has its very own school of the arts, aptly named Durham School of the Arts, as well as being home to the North Carolina School of Math and Science. The School of Math and Science is competitive and challenging to get into but its nationally recognized in its quality of teaching and students. Durham itself is becoming more and more known for being a community that is very open and accepting of the arts and the city also has a new and extremely popular arts center, called Durham Performing Arts Center, or DPAC, that has off-Broadway hits. High schoolers interested in the arts also have the opportunity to perform here through their association with Durham High Schools.
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