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When ranking Texas public high schools by SAT scores, how does Austin fare?
The Texas Education Agency makes public the SAT and ACT scores for all public high schools in the state, including charter schools.
We've taken that data and ranked the 50 top-scoring schools in the state from the 2015-2016 school year, regardless of their size — based on the total mean SAT scores for the reading and math portions of the test.
Click through the slideshow above for a countdown of the top 50 high schools in Texas with the highest average SAT scores.
As you click through…
Charlotte developer buys 90 acres in Apex
A Charlotte developer has closed on 90 acres in a rapidly-developing area of western Apex.
Condo market déjá vu as people camp out to reserve homes in new Koda tower
Prospective buyers are snapping up “attainably priced” condos in downtown Seattle, where the median asking price is more than $1.4 million. Preliminary prices in the new Koda project start below $350,000.
New townhome development coming to Denver’s Sloan’s Lake
14 large scale European-style townhomes will soon break ground in metro Denver.
Digital marketing guru pays $11M for Delray Beach mansion
Digital marketing pioneer Jeffrey Herzog and wife Jill Herzog paid $10.59 million for a mansion in GL Homes’ Stone Creek Ranch community in west Delray Beach.
G.L. Signature Homes, an affiliate of the Sunrise-based homebuilder, sold the 21,030-square-foot mansion at 9480 Bent Grass Court to the Herzogs. The price equates to $504 per square foot.
Jeffrey Herzog founded and was CEO of digital marketing firm iCrossing, which was sold to Hearst Co. for $325 million in 2010. He then founded ZOG Digital,…
Atlanta investor buys downtown Pittsburgh office building for $6.2 million
An affiliate of Crescent Investment Group bought a downtown Pittsburgh property.
Inside the downtown Milwaukee Masonic Center before it becomes a hotel: Slideshow
The gray limestone walls facing Van Buren Street and inward facing stained-glass windows make the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center a bit forbidding to the surrounding downtown Milwaukee streets.
But new owners who plan to convert and expand the building into a 220-room hotel want to transform that longtime stand-offish structure into a hot spot for downtown residents and visitors, said Eric Nordeen, principal with Ascendant Holdings LLC. A tour through the inside, which is much more colorful…
Here’s a little-noticed factor behind Denver’s shortage of homes for sale
Many reasons have been cited for metro Denver's trend of record-low inventory of homes for sale. Here's one that doesn't get talked about as much.
SailPoint to significantly grow Austin footprint with new office; More hiring in works
SailPoint Technologies has inked a huge lease with Brandywine Realty Trust for a new office building in Northwest Austin. The fast-growing software company, which went public a few months, will have room to grow at its new consolidated HQ.
Just how far should Colorado go to lure Amazon’s HQ2? Debate over incentives, transparency intensifies.
As the early March deadline approaches for Colorado and 19 other finalists hoping to land Amazon’s second headquarters, the debate over whether they should incentivize the Seattle retail behemoth has intensified.
Some of them are offering billions of dollars worth of economic incentives. Colorado’s pitch to make Denver the next HQ2 is estimated to be in the $100 million range. But few finalists, including Colorado, have revealed exactly how much they offered Amazon. And that has fueled campaigns to smack local governments for offering taxpayer-funded incentives to a company that sold $177.9 billion worth of products and services last year.
Any amount is too much, said Geoff Holtzman, who is with the Koch family funded Generation Opportunity. The conservative political group, representing millennials, this week launched a social-media campaign to oppose such corporate deals.
“Americans, especially young people, believe in the concept of fairness, and there is really nothing fair when..