All-Time NC Fantastic 50 Rankings

All-Time NC Rankings
(after the 2009 season)

These rankings are computed based on the cumulative results of the final rankings for every year of the Fantastic 50 rankings (2001-2009). Finishing #1 in a season is worth 50 points, finishing #2 worth 49 points, etc., down to one point for finishing #50. A total of 154 teams have finished in the top 50 at least once; this is almost half the teams in the state.

1) Independence 443 (Top five in all nine seaons, and #1 six times)
2) Richmond County 356 (Top 25 in all nine seasons, and six top-10 seasons)
3) Reidsville 333 (Ranked every year, four top-5 seasons, the top-ranked small school)
4) New Bern 251 (Six times in the top 25)
5) Butler 243 (Six times in the top 25, and #1 in 2009)
6) Asheville 240 (Ranked for the 8th consecutive season)
7) Cummings 227 (Three top-5 seasons, but last ranked in 2006)
8) Reynolds, A.C. 225 (Ranked seven times, including five top-25 seasons)
9) Crest 225 (Ranked six times (last in 2006), and three top-10 seasons)
10) Dudley 217 (Ranked for the 6th year in a row, five times in the top 25)
11) Western Alamance 214 (Ranked six times, with three top-10 seasons)
12) South Point 212 (Five times in the top 25, including #1 in 2003)
13) Rose, J.H. 210 (Four seasons in the top 10, but last ranked in 2006)
14) Mount Tabor 202 (Ranked seven times, including four top-25 seasons)
15) Shelby 201 (Seven years ranked (last in 2007), including three top-10 seasons)
16) Eastern Randolph 188 (Five top-25 seasons, last ranked in 2006)
17) Thomasville 172 (Broke a string of six consecutive years being ranked)
18) Carver 169 (Four times in the top 25)
19) Charlotte Catholic 168 (Unranked for the first time since 2003)
20) Charlotte Latin 167 (Fourth consecutive year in the top 25, including #1 in 2007)
21) Jack Britt 166 (Ranked five times, including back-to-back top-10 seasons)
22) Rocky Mount 165 (Unranked after five straight years in the top 50)
23) South View 164 (Four top-25 finishes, and six years in the rankings)
24) Albemarle 164 (Four top-25 seasons early in the decade, ranked again this year)
25) Davie County 158 (First time unranked since 2003)
26) Clinton 152 (Top five in '01 and '02, ranked four times in all)
27) West Rowan 145 (Ranked five times, and in the top 10 in both '08 and '09)
28) Ragsdale 144 (Five seasons in the rankings, including two in the top 10)
29) Providence 140 (Three top-25 rankings, and a total of five years in the top 50)
30) Garner 140 (Six years ranked, including four top-25 seasons)
31) Charlotte Country Day 130 (Fourth straight year in the top 50, ranked five times in all)
32) Hoggard 128 (First time out of the top 50 since 2002)
33) South Columbus 121 (Three times in the top 25, ranked in five seasons)
34) West Charlotte 116 (Ranked in four seasons, including twice in the top 25)
35) Grimsley 112 (Three top-25 appearances, ranked in four seasons)
36) Wallace-Rose Hill 108 (Five seasons ranked, one of them in the top 10)
37) Concord 107 (In the rankings three times, and twice in the top 10)
38) West Craven 106 (Ranked four times, including once in the top 10)
39) Southwest Onslow 106 (Twice in the top 5 (in 2002 and 2003))
40) East Bladen 102 (Five seasons in the rankings, two of them in the top 25)
41) West Forsyth 99 (Ranked in five seasons)
42) Elkin 99 (A top-ten ranking in 2003, plus two other times ranked)
43) Scotland County 98 (A pair of top-25 seasons, five years ranked in all)
44) East Mecklenburg 94 (Ranked each of the last three seasons, and four in all)
45) Brown, A.L. 91 (Ranked five times, including the last three seasons)
46) Parkland 89 (Ranked four years early in the decade)
47) Northern Nash 89 (Top-10 seasons in both 2001 and 2002)
48) Smith, E.E. 87 (Three top-25 appearances, but unranked since 2004)
49) James Kenan 87 (Ranked three times, including once in the top 10)
50) Newton-Conover 84 (Back-to-back top-25 rankings)

New after 2009 season: East Mecklenburg, Newton-Conover
Dropped out after 2008 season: Southern Durham, Franklin

The longest active streaks of being ranked at season's end are...
Independence 9
Reidsville 9
Richmond County 9
Asheville 8
Dudley 6
Butler 5
Charlotte Country Day 4
Charlotte Latin 4
Hillside 4
Brown 3
Charlotte Christian 3
East Mecklenburg 3
Mount Tabor 3
South Point 3
Wake Forest-Rolesville 3
West Rowan 3