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Eight Fulton County high schools are “AP Honor Schools” according to a recent announcement made by the Georgia Department of Education. Advanced Placement, or AP, classes and exams are administered by the College Board and offer rigorous college-level learning options to students in high school.

The 2009 AP Honor Schools are named in three categories based on the results of 2007-08 AP classes and exams: (1) AP Challenge Schools (schools with fewer than 900 students that offer AP classes in core content areas); (2) AP Access and Support Schools (schools with higher percentages of minority students taking AP classes and scoring highly) and (3) AP Merit Schools.

The AP Merit Schools distinction recognizes those with at least 20 percent of students taking AP exams and with at least half of those exams receiving a score of three or higher. Eight of the 27 schools in this category are from the Fulton County School System. This is the second consecutive year that each have been named AP Merit Schools.

· Alpharetta High School

· Centennial High School

· Chattahoochee High School

· Milton High School

· North Springs Charter High School

· Northview High School

· Riverwood International Charter School

· Roswell High School

The College Board administers AP exams each spring, with scores ranging from one to five. Students who receive a three, four or five on AP exams are eligible receive college credit or may be exempt from some introductory college courses.

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Newsweek Magazine has named seven Fulton County schools in its annual list of 1,300 top-ranking public high schools in the United States.

Centennial (No. 272), Riverwood (No. 301), Milton (No. 325), Northview (No. 347), Roswell (No. 529), Chattahoochee (No. 530) and Alpharetta (No. 1129) high schools made the list. You can view the report on Newsweek's web site.

Newsweek ranked the schools according to a ratio that takes the total number of 2007 Advanced Placement and/or International Baccalaureate tests divided by the number of graduating seniors.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380/?s=alpharetta

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For Centennial High students, Wednesday, April 2 was not a normal day. During fourth period (lunchtime for many students), an announcement came to immediately evacuate the building for an undisclosed reason. School newspaper editor-in-chief and senior Yaanik Desai said that he and his fellow students were caught by surprise when the announcement came.

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"We were at lunch when the announcement came," he said. "Because everyone wasn't in class, it wasn't as organized as it could have been the evacuation was a little haphazard, but we all got out to the stadium pretty quickly."

Desai said that the students immediately ruled out a fire or storm because the school did not go through the normal fire or storm drills. He recalls that there was not much fear in his fellow students because no one thought it was an intruder or a bomb threat.

Once they got outside, several teachers said that it was a chemical spill before Principal John Bartley made the announcement to the students.

"People were definitely happy to be let out early once we learned what had happened," said Desai. "I think it speaks a lot to the administration that they got us out quickly and safely under the circumstances."

Although students enjoyed their early dismissal, Desai said he was pretty sure that it will back to school as usual today.

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