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CONGRATULATING ACADEMIC MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL IN NORTH CHARLESTON FOR BEING SELECTED BY U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT AS TWENTY-SEVENTH IN AMERICA'S TOP ONE HUNDRED HIGH SCHOOLS.
Whereas, Academic Magnet High School is centrally located in Charleston County, serving grades nine through twelve; and
Whereas, Academic Magnet High School is a relatively small high school with an enrollment of approximately five hundred students, providing them with a more personalized education and high school experience; and
Whereas, Academic Magnet High School uses a highly selective admissions process based on students' test scores and grades; and
Whereas, Academic Magnet High School's mission is to challenge each student, teacher, and parent with high expectations, and to provide a learning environment that thoroughly prepares students for college and develops self-esteem; and
Whereas, Academic Magnet High School uses a strong, rigorous curriculum that builds on students' knowledge and skillfully challenges the students to reach their scholarly potentials; and
Whereas, Academic Magnet High School encourages its students to be citizens of the world, acquiring a sense of global responsibility and respect for cultural diversity; and
Whereas, U.S. News and World Report's first-ever list of America's Best High Schools ranked schools in forty states based on three criteria: (1) students' test scores on state reading and math exams must exceed statistical expectations given the students' poverty level; (2) the least advantaged student groups must achieve proficiency rates on state tests that exceed state average; and (3) the level of students' college readiness, measured by student participation in and performance on Advanced Placement tests. The one hundred top performing schools were given gold status and ranked numerically, and the remaining schools that met all three criteria were classified as silver schools; and
Whereas, U.S. News and World Report rates Academic Magnet High School in North Charleston the twenty-seventh best high school in the nation, the only school in South Carolina to receive gold medal status. Academic Magnet High School has been rated by Newsweek Magazine in the last two years as number ten in the nation. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:
That the members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, congratulate Academic Magnet High School for being selected by U.S. News and World Report as twenty-seventh in America's top one hundred high schools.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Academic Magnet High School.
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