George Walton Comprehensive High School
| George Walton Comprehensive High School | |
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1590 Bill Murdock Rd. Marietta, Georgia United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°59′20″N 84°26′30″W / 33.988776°N 84.441776°WCoordinates: 33°59′20″N 84°26′30″W / 33.988776°N 84.441776°W |
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| Type | Public (charter) high school |
| Established | 1975 |
| Principal | Judith McNeill |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,636 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Red, white, and blue |
| Nickname | Raiders |
| Yearbook | The Legend |
| Website | waltonhigh |
George Walton Comprehensive High School, also known as Walton High School, is a public high school located in Marietta, Georgia, United States. It is in eastern Cobb County and is a charter school in the Cobb County School District. It is a School of Excellence and one of the top schools academically in the state. It is one of the larger high schools in the East Cobb area. As of the October 2, 2012 FTE count, there were 2,636 students attending Walton, making it the largest in the district by population.
For many years Walton has been among the top high schools in Georgia in SAT scores. In 2006, almost 800 Walton students took over 1,800 Advanced Placement exams, making it the school with the greatest number of test-takers in Georgia. Walton was also one of six featured "Outstanding American High Schools" out of 96 total by U.S.News & World Report in 1999 because of its high parental involvement and overall high level of achievement. In 2011, Walton was ranked 67 by Newsweek based on new factors: graduation rate (25%), college matriculation rate (25%), AP tests taken per graduate (25%), average SAT/ACT scores (10%), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10%), and AP courses offered (5%).
Construction of Walton High School began in 1973, and the school opened in 1975. Various sections of the school have been renovated, and entirely new halls have been added continuously, each time with their own distinct type of architecture and style. Throughout these many years of construction, especially in recent years, mobile classrooms, colloquially called "trailers," were added to accommodate for the classrooms rendered unavailable. A small number are still in use today, primarily for required Health classes and formerly for in-school suspension.
Walton has been a Georgia School of Excellence since the program's creation in 1984, and in the same year was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Walton became a charter school in 1998. This charter, renewed in 2003 and 2008, has allowed Walton to alter and transcend certain regulations the state school board put into place, to further academic and extracurricular success.
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