Area 3 in the News!
Walton High School was ranked in the top 5% of the nation's high schools by Newsweek Magazine. Marcus E. Howard referenced the Newsweek article in the MDJ on 5/28/2007. Newsweek's article and the top public high schools can be found here. An excerpt from the article can be found below You can read the full text of the Marietta Daily Journal article here.
Walton's rank is the highest among public high schools in Georgia. It also is the highest ranking the east Cobb school ever has received, moving up 67 places from last year's ranking of 184.
Walton has made the list several times since Newsweek began the rankings in 1998.
"We're proud anytime we make the list because we think being recognized means we're headed in the right direction," Walton principal Dr. Tom Higgins said.
The 1,258 schools on the list represent the top 5 percent of all high schools in the country.
Diane R. Stepp wrote an article appeared in the AJC on 5/25/2007 entitled "School's out for summer." An excerpt from the article, mentioning Eastvalley is below. To access the text of the full article, you can click here.
Even lunch was to be a treat--hamburgers, watermelon and other picnic fare. Some would eat in the cafeteria, others outdoors and at other places throughout the school. The afternoon would bring a fifth grade talent show, then the final farewell for the year--a fifth grade walk down the halls as classmates, teachers and parents line to halls to say goodbye before the final bell of the school year.
At Eastvalley Elementary in Marietta this was no ordinary day, second grader Katie, 8, can tell you. "We never get to have waffles at breakfast." But on this morning her class did, thanks to parents who cooked a special breakfast for them.
Second graders fueled up on waffles while third graders dove into a special parent-supplied buffet breakfast, energy food for a morning of field day activities. Out on the playground kids were burning up energy twirling hoola hoops, jumping in sack races, ferrying water from a barrell in relays, and jumping rope while parents joined in the fun.
Fifth graders got in a word of advice and a chance to reminisce during morning broadcast when they advised their younger classmates to get plenty of rest and do their homework, then recalled highlights of their days at Eastvalley, some as far back as kindergarten, said principal Althea Singletary.
