The best high schools in Atlanta (and GA), by county

The best high schools in Atlanta, by county

11:27 a.m. May 13 by Adam Carlson / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Nearly every core metro Atlanta county has at least one name appear in newly released rankings of the nation's best public schools.

Indeed, Gwinnett County's Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology is America’s fourth-best high school. (It was named the state's "most challenging" school earlier this year.)

The annual rankings, compiled by U.S. News and World Report, measure schools in four major categories: student-teacher ratio, college readiness, math proficiency and English proficiency.

Here is the best-ranked school in each of the core metro Atlanta counties — Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and Henry counties. 

Clayton and Rockdale counties did not have schools on the list.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has also compiled the most recent educational data in several important categories for all of these ranked schools, as well as nearly every Georgia public high school, including graduation rates, average SAT scores and more.

That information is included with each.

Click here to see the AJC's complete searchable database for Georgia's public high schools