High School Orchestras Earn Prestigious Invite

Chattahoochee, Johns Creek & Alpharetta invited to Midwest Clinic

It’s an honor to have one Fulton County school perform at the Midwest Clinic, but to have three? Chattahoochee, Johns Creek and Alpharetta high schools all have earned invitations to perform at the prestigious international band and orchestra conference.  “This is unprecedented,” said Jessica Booth, fine arts coordinator for the Fulton County School System. “Never in the Midwest Clinic’s history have three schools been selected from one district in the same year.” The Midwest Clinic, which began in 1946, annually draws the nation’s best musical talent to Chicago. It exists to raise the standards of music education and to develop new teaching techniques, and also to hold clinics, lectures, and demonstrations for the betterment of music …

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Canned Food Needed for Student Competition, Charity

North Fulton high schools will use cans to competitively build architectural structures.

The race is on to help North Fulton high schools end hunger in the Atlanta community through the collection of canned food items. But unlike the usual canned food drive, students are using the donated cans as a real-world lesson to sharpen their architectural design skills. Fulton County Schools has joined the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, North Point Mall, and the architectural firm of Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood to host the first-ever Atlanta area “Can Do Good” social design competition. The competition asks high schools to hold canned food drives and then design and build an imaginative structure made completely of those cans and other non-perishable food items. The high school teams still need cans to reach their collection …

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"Night of the Running Zombies" a 5K Run, Walk,...Crreeep

Join Northview High School for this spooky fundraiser!

Titans Wrestling Program Goes Beyond the Mat

Focus is on athletics, mentorship and leadership.

Northview High School’s Junior Titans wrestling program has undergone massive changes, including a limitation to 50 students. Northview Wrestling Program Director Bob Biondich has overseen both the high-school wrestling program and Junior Titans, whose participants are ages 6-14, for the last five years. During this time, he has seen two broad categories of youth — those who abandon sports in favor of sedentary activities and are not athletic and single-sport specialists who play year-round and suffer injuries due to overuse of particular muscles. Although the Junior Titans have dramatically increased from 14 students and two coaches to over 100 students and nine coaches during his tenure, Biondich has simplified his goals. “I want 50 kids…

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JC Students Named Scholarship Semifinalists

Semifinalists must meet stiff requirements and earn SAT scores to confirm their achievements to become finalists.

Fourteen Fulton County seniors have been named semifinalists in the 49th annual National Achievement Scholarship Program, an academic competition for African-American high school students. A Northview High students and a Johns Creek High student were among the 14 semifinalists in the program, which is administered by National Merit Corp., an organization that recognizes and awards scholarships to academically gifted students.   The students were identified through exceptionally high scores on the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which they took as juniors. As semifinalists, the students now must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist round. They must have a record of high academic performance, be endorsed …

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'Will to Live' Announces Scholarship Winners

Foundation awards Northview student athletes.

The Will To Live Foundation, in keeping with its mission, its principles and its motto of "For the Kids, Through the Kids, By the Kids," has announcde the winners of the second annual "Life Teammates Award & Scholarship." Once again, this year's winners from Northview High School were selected by their peers and Life Teammates at the end of the 2011/2012 school year. "We were so pleased to be able to expand the 'Life Teammates' scholarship award to four sports programs at Northview High this year," said John Trautwein, who along with his wife Susie, formed the Will To Live Foundation to spread the awareness of teen suicide after their son Will, a freshman at Northview High School, took his own life in October 2010. Each winner, a student …

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National Merit Scholars Named

Recipients of college-sponsored scholarships announced.

More than 2,000 additional winners of National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities were announced by National Merit Scholarship Corporation this week. These Merit Scholar designees join more than 2,500 other college-sponsored award recipients who were announced in late May. Eight of the college-sponsored winners graduated from Northview High School in Johns Creek, while one recipient graduated from Johns Creek High School. These winners include: Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program who will attend their institution. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate …

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Northview Wins First Place in Green Event

Northview High School recently won first place in the Get There Green contest. Thanks to a Clean Air Campaign grant, students from Jason Weinberger's AP Environmental Science class worked to raise awareness on the negative effects of air pollution and to encourage car pooling with various activities. The Clean Air Campaign received a $50,000 from the UPS Foundation to fund the program, and Northview was one of 10 schools in the metro area that participated.

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Northview Girls Soccer Advances to State

Lady Titans to compete with Milton on Saturday.

In the AAAAA semifinals on Wednesday Northview girls soccer beat Harrison 4-3 in overtime penalty kicks to advance to the AAAAA State Championship versus Milton. They entered overtime 0-0. The championship game will be played Saturday, May 19, at 8 p.m. at Milton High School.

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Northview Earns U.S. News & World Report Ranking

High school ranked #4 in state and #219 nationally.

Northview High School earned two rankings in the coveted annual Best High Schools Rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The Johns Creek school was ranked No. 4 in Georgia and No. 219 nationally. Among other criteria, the magazine recognized that 99 percent of Northview's students are proficient in English and Math, based on state exit exams and college-level coursework.  The only other North Fulton school to make the list was Riverwood International Charter School in Sandy Springs (No. 5 in Georgia, No. 291 in U.S.). U.S. News & World Report's rankings include 22,000 public schools across the country.

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