It's not an accident that NMSI is located in Dallas, Texas.
School Named Top in the Nation: Newsweek published its list of top 1,200 schools in the United Sates, and a Dallas, Texas TAG magnet gifted and talented school placed first. Congratulations to the School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center!
Eighty-three percent of Townview's student body -- this is grades nine through 12 -- is African American or Hispanic. Thirty-six percent of the total student body took at least one AP, or advanced placement, exam. Twenty percent of the entire student body passed at least one advanced placement exam. So there is high participation rates in advanced placement. And at the Science and Engineering magnet school, for three yeas running, more African American and Hispanic students passed advanced placement calculus than any other school in the United States, public or private.
And in 2005, 35 of the African American and Hispanic freshmen and sophomore students passed AP calculus and that is more than any other school in the country.
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The Science and Engineering Magnet School in Dallas has the nation's highest number of African American and Hispanic students earning grades of 3 or higher on the AP Calculus exams. At this NCLB National "Blue Ribbon School," nearly half of all students qualify for the federal meals program; over 70% are minorities
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