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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.samueltay.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Samuel Tay</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/atom.aspx</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/default.aspx" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/atom.aspx" /><generator uri="http://communityserver.org" version="2.1.61019.2">Community Server</generator><updated>2009-07-19T07:02:00Z</updated><entry><title>Why KATY market is HOT!!!!!</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/archive/2009/07/19/why-katy-market-is-hot.aspx" /><id>http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/archive/2009/07/19/why-katy-market-is-hot.aspx</id><published>2009-07-19T13:02:00Z</published><updated>2009-07-19T13:02:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What draws home buyers to Katy are our exemplary schools. This is what keeps&lt;br /&gt;our property values high even when faced with a national real estate crises.&lt;br /&gt;Now, Newsweek Magazine, yes- that national weekly&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380"&gt;http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; has ranked four Katy high schools&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380"&gt;http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp; among the best in the nation&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380"&gt;http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; !&lt;br /&gt;This is phenomenal!&amp;nbsp; Four of our local high schools ranked in the top 1500,&lt;br /&gt;equating to top 6%, of the approximately 27,000 public high schools in the&lt;br /&gt;nation. Not only is this a terrific accomplishment for each campus but it&lt;br /&gt;reflects the outstanding standards of the Katy Independent School District.&lt;br /&gt;Seven Lakes High, (pictured above), garnered the highest ranking coming in&lt;br /&gt;at #403. Cinco Ranch High came in at #458. Taylor High was #1,067 and Katy&lt;br /&gt;High came in at #1,458.&lt;br /&gt;Each year, Newsweek Magazine ranks public schools based on the number of&lt;br /&gt;students who take Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or&lt;br /&gt;Cambridge tests divided by the number of graduating seniors. According to&lt;br /&gt;Newsweek Magazine researchers, to make the list each school must have an&lt;br /&gt;index of at least 1.000; this means the school has as many tests as&lt;br /&gt;graduates.&lt;br /&gt;For a detailed explanation on how the rankings were calculated, read the&lt;br /&gt;article in full.&amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;&lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/201139?tid=relatedcl"&gt;http://www.newsweek.com/id/201139?tid=relatedcl&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.samueltay.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=497011" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>352368</name><uri>http://www.samueltay.com/members/352368.aspx</uri></author><category term="Real Estate" scheme="http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/archive/tags/Real+Estate/default.aspx" /><category term="Market Conditions" scheme="http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/archive/tags/Market+Conditions/default.aspx" /><category term="Announcements" scheme="http://www.samueltay.com/blogs/samuel_tay/archive/tags/Announcements/default.aspx" /></entry></feed>