Academic Magnet High School
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5109-A West Enterprise Street North Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston County United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°53′09″N 80°00′00″W / 32.88583°N 80.00000°WCoordinates: 32°53′09″N 80°00′00″W / 32.88583°N 80.00000°W |
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| Type | Magnet High School |
| Motto | Seriously Smart |
| Established | 1988 |
| School district | Charleston County School District |
| Principal | Judith Peterson |
| Number of students | 617 ('12-'13) |
| Color(s) | Hunter Green and Black |
| Mascot | Raptors (Romulus the Raptor) |
| Newspaper | The Talon |
| Yearbook | Carpe Diem |
| Website | http://amhs.ccsdschools.com |
Academic Magnet High School (AMHS) is a high school (grades 9-12) in North Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The school requires students to join through an admissions process based on middle school grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, and a written essay.
Academic Magnet High School was established in 1988, and the first class graduated in 1992. The school was originally located as a separate sub-campus of Burke High School in downtown Charleston. It then moved to the Charleston Naval Base, where it stayed until 2010, when it moved to the newly built Bonds Wilson campus on the site of the old Bonds-Wilson High School in North Charleston, South Carolina. Academic Magnet shares this state-of-the-art campus with the Charleston County School of the Arts middle and high schools. The new campus is part of an effort by the Charleston County School District to upgrade its facilities.
Academic Magnet is currently home to over 615 students in this 2013–2014 school year. Compared to an average South Carolina high school, there is a higher Asian-American population, and a lower African-American population at Academic Magnet.
The school's SAT scores have been the second-best in the state since 1998, surpassed only by the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. Graduates of AMHS have gone on to attend prestigious school such as Harvard University, Princeton University, Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, the United States Naval Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Duke University, Northwestern University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, Vassar College, Bates College, University of Oxford, Swarthmore College, and Washington and Lee University.
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