[onja]

So, a brief moment of smugness. I supposedly attend the 13th best public high school in the United States, for whatever a NewsWeek analyzes is worth.

Yeah!, and congrats for Tucson.

[onja]

And I utterly break this tradition by being idiotic and sleepy. It’s late... Could the mod please change the title to “ U.S. News lauds 5 Tucson high schools, 2 in top 20”. Thanks.

[ml/nj]

I looked at this list and it's rather bogus. Here's an excerpt from the US News' Ranking Formula:

the second step determined whether the school's least-advantaged students (black, Hispanic, and low-income) were performing better than average for similar students in the state. We compared each school's math and reading proficiency rates for disadvantaged students with the statewide results for these disadvantaged student groups and then selected schools that were performing better than this state average.

Schools that made it through those first two steps became eligible to be judged nationally on the final step: college-readiness ...

So if you locale doesn't have any "disadvantaged" students your local school is disqualified from being "judged nationally." How absurd!

ML/NJ