Posted on 12/01/2007 10:49:31 AM PST by Cagey
WASHINGTON -- U.S. News & World Report says America's best high school is in Virginia, one of three to make it in the magazine's top 100.
The magazine's first-ever high school rankings give the top honor to Fairfax County's elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Using K-12 data research and analysis business run by Standard & Poor's, the magazine put high schools in 40 states through a three-step analysis. U.S. News and World measured how each school's students performed on state tests, adjusting for student circumstances. Then it evaluated how well each school's disadvantaged students did. Lastly, they looked at whether the school was successful in providing college-level coursework.
The magazine's analysis considered more than 18,500 high schools in 40 states.
Look at the headline: “100 best high schools in America”
Not “100 best Socialist Indoctrination Camps”
Something is seriously wrong here. My kids go to Maggie L Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, VA. According to Newsweek, it is one of 21 “Elite Public High Schools” in the US, yet it doesn’t merit even a bronze award among Virginia schools according to USNWR. No way. It is a regional school set up the same way as #1 Thomas Jefferson.
Avg. SAT: Verbal 688; Math 652
AP scores: 46% 5; 94% 3 or higher
43% National Merit Awards (commended or higher)
2007 National Quiz Bowl Champions
FWIW, the only school I know of that teaches Latin is the private school that my nephew attended.......
I saw the headline...............but I am also aware that headlines rarely convey the true gut of an article. Something I thought all Freepers were also capable of doing.
I noticed that as well. If they included all schools I’m sure they would add Bishop England High School, Charleston, SC (Class of 1970).
Well, that's depressing. I was supposed to have had a job at that school and then I got bumped through a series of mishaps. Actually, I thought that the school was a junior high school, but it might be a 6-12 school. (When they sent me over there, I was still licensed for JHS, not HS.)
They call the place the "Nest" or "Nest+M". The bottom floor of the building is actually a branch of the New York Public Library, and the school is over it. Gives the students few excuses, I think.
You have forgive us Freepers our lack of mental acuity. Most of us are public school grads ;)
Peak To Peak Charter School Boulder County, Lafayette, Colorado
Is that a typo, or is your assertion incorrect?
We just pay more for our schools in NC. You want us to make it into the top 100?
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From the US News & World Report page describing the Ranking Formula they used:
“We analyzed 18,790 public high schools in 40 states using data from the 2005-2006 school year.”
23 from California
Charter schools are technically part of the public school system in most states.
The one school in Delaware I noticed on the list is a Charter school in Wilmington, but it is a public school even though there is criteria for entrance.
Charter School Of Wilmington New Castle County, Wilmington, Delaware
“My son graduated from Lake Oswego High School in 1985. He was a National Merit winner, Senior Class President, captain of the soccer team and valedictorian. At the time, the school was ranked in the Top 50. Two other Oregon high schools were ranked in the top 100. Now the state is nowhere to be seen. “
My high school was ranked #6 in 1972. Newton High School, Newton, Mass. Now it is ranked #350.
My High School is in the top 50.
For years it was in the top ten.
I guess the Lihs call this “Progress”.
I don't know where you went to school, but there seems to be 23 from California on the list, not 20.
Saving for later. Thanks.
Lert my reding and riting thar.
Note, though, that Oakton and Vienna are simply regular old highschools in an immensely wealthy and highly educated part of Fairfax County. The students at TJ are selected from the broad masses of mostly Fairfax County to attend what some wrongly call a "Magnet School" ~ no, they aren't trying to get white kids to go to school there.
To be realistic ALL highschools in Fairfax County are operated as part of a single, unitary system. The differences arise out of the abilities of the students attending each school, not the resources allocated or the capabilities of the teachers ~ 'cause if it were otherwise we would have run the school board out of town!
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