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<blockquote data-quote="Augusta_Jacket" data-source="post: 427991" data-attributes="member: 1191"><p>The reason for this is that Richmond County has more high schools per population than most Georgia counties. As they are smaller schools, they still suffer the overcrowding, but the student populations per school are relatively low. Westside (Augusta) runs with about 800-900 students. Across the river, North Augusta High has about 1800 students. My wife always jokes she had almost as many students in her graduating class than I had in my HS. In ARC, there are 13 public high schools. If you take out the magnet schools, you have 8 traditional zoned schools. With a population of 201,000 people, thats 25,125 per school. If you look at two of the more successful programs in the state, Valdosta and Lowndes HS, they are the only two high schools in Lowndes County, where the population is 113,000 people. That's over twice the student per school ratio. Because Richmond county has chosen to build more, but smaller, schools, it spreads the talent among more schools, so we don't get the advantage of congregating all our best players into a few teams. If we went with the same ratio as Lowndes, we'd only have 4 high schools instead of 8 and I guarantee you we'd see better results on the athletic fields.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Augusta_Jacket, post: 427991, member: 1191"] The reason for this is that Richmond County has more high schools per population than most Georgia counties. As they are smaller schools, they still suffer the overcrowding, but the student populations per school are relatively low. Westside (Augusta) runs with about 800-900 students. Across the river, North Augusta High has about 1800 students. My wife always jokes she had almost as many students in her graduating class than I had in my HS. In ARC, there are 13 public high schools. If you take out the magnet schools, you have 8 traditional zoned schools. With a population of 201,000 people, thats 25,125 per school. If you look at two of the more successful programs in the state, Valdosta and Lowndes HS, they are the only two high schools in Lowndes County, where the population is 113,000 people. That's over twice the student per school ratio. Because Richmond county has chosen to build more, but smaller, schools, it spreads the talent among more schools, so we don't get the advantage of congregating all our best players into a few teams. If we went with the same ratio as Lowndes, we'd only have 4 high schools instead of 8 and I guarantee you we'd see better results on the athletic fields. [/QUOTE]
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