Report: Cartersville One of the Best High Schools

Cartersville High School is one of the best across the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report, which analyzed 21,035 public high schools in 49 states and the District of Columbia for its 2013 Best High Schools rankings.

The rankings are based on "the key principles that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college-bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators," according to U.S. News & World Report.

The Best High Schools are determined with a three-part process: the first two parts ensure the schools well serve all their students using state proficiency tests as benchmarks, while the third assesses how well the schools prepare students for college.

With its 1,103 students, Cartersville High School ranked No. 31 in Georgia and No. 1,590 nationally, and earned a silver medal for its higher college readiness index.

The efforts—and the accolades—fall in line with CHS' strategic plan, Principal Steven Butler told The Daily Tribune News.

"I don’t think it’s good enough to say our subgroups do better than the statistical average for the average kid in the state," Butler said, according to the newspaper. "Our expectation is that every student at Cartersville High School, regardless of their cultural background, or their ethnic background, or their race, performs at their highest ability and to me, that’s why you can’t stand still [in education]."

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