Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center

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United States President George W. Bush and United States First Lady Laura Bush visiting a Biology laboratory at SEM in 2006

The Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center (TMC) is a single building campus that houses six semi-independent magnet high schools in the Dallas Independent School District. The six component schools are:

• The School for the Talented & Gifted (TAG)
• The Science and Engineering Magnet (SEM)
• The School of Government, Law, & Law Enforcement (LAW)
• The School of Business and Management (BMC)
• The School of Education and Social Services (ESSM)
• The School of Health Professions (HSHP)

TAG was ranked the best High School in the United States in 2006 by Newsweek's Jay Mathews Challenge Index which measures the best public and private schools across the country. In the same article SEM was ranked as 8th best in the USA. In the 2005 study, SEM came 6th but TAG was excluded from the survey because of the way it pre-screens students for admission. There is much rivallry between the two schools for placement in the survey.

[edit] School Logos

The SEM Logo

The TAG Logo

The Law Logo

[edit] References

• 2002-2003 No Child Left Behind – Blue Ribbon Schools Program (PDF). U.S. Department of Education (November 2002). Retrieved on 2006-12-27.
• Top 100 High Schools in the United States. Newsweek. Retrieved on 2007-3-23.
• President Visits Science and Engineering High School in Texas.
• President Bush Heads To North Texas School.
• Dallas ISD home page.
• The Townview Magnet Center Homepage. Retrieved on 2007-3-23.
• School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center. Dallas Independent School District. Retrieved on 2006-12-26.
• SEM Website.