nope, not ASMS. They pull form all over the state, and are a boarding school. They are not part of a school system at all, but they are state sponsored. I guess they would be closest to a charter school. They are not the only school in Mobile with bright children. Far from it. The students there are specifically talented in the sciences. I don't particularly like the environment there as iti s very socially insular. They do not participate in any sports, academic competiotns, or music programs. Nothing that takes them outside of the school. Other schools specialize in different areas. Most are inner city schoosl that have developed magnet programs to draw in suburban students with a sepcalized talent. There is a school that does specifically engineering, one for Health Sciences, a couple with specalized performing arts programs, and two IB schools, each offering different facets of the program. All have talented students, and all have had perfect nad near perfect ACT/SAT scores. MY school specifically routinely has 35 ACT scores. There has been at least one 35 and multiple scores above 33 every year i have been there. It was the norm for these schools when i was in school as well. It was rare for anyone in the top 10% of a magnet program school to score below 33. Students are required to mantian a certian GPA in the full honors program to remain at a magnet school if they transfered in for that program. The children districted for that school are typically not part of the program. The really bright students are the top 10-20% of the population at any given school, and are spread out over the system, whihc is why no one school stands out when you look at the statistics. If you put all of the magnet program students together in one school, it would look much more like ASMS does on paper.