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Top 1,000 U.S. High Schools

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I don't know about anyone else, but I just used the find capability of my browser to find anything in my state

btw: my old HS is #726 and the other high school in my district got #937
 
Uhmmm... where is Bronx Science and Stuyvesant?
I would've thought those were tops in the nation.

And Brooklyn Tech, Townsend Harris?
 
Me: 364: Plano Senior HS, Plano, TX
My sis: 206: Cherry Creek, Denver, CO

EDIT: My fiancee: 220: Walnut HS, Walnut, CA

EDIT: I really should check who is logged in before posting. This is DingDingDao :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: psteng19
Uhmmm... where is Bronx Science and Stuyvesant?
I would've thought those were tops in the nation.

And Brooklyn Tech, Townsend Harris?
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read the article more carefully?
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
I do not include any high school that accepts more than half of its students into the school based on highly competitive academic criteria like grades and test scores. All of those schools you name are terrific places with some of the highest average test scores in the country, but it would be deceptive for me to put them on this list. The Challenge Index is designed to honor schools that have done the best job in getting average students into college level courses. It does not work with schools that have no, or almost no, average students. I want a list that measures how good the schools are, not just how good their students are.
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That explains why only the schools in the higher income areas are on the list. No exam entrance schools are on the list.
 
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
note that this metric is:

# of AP or IB tests GIVEN / # grad seniors


a fairly simplistic measure of school excellence I would say....


PS I put the list into an excel table if anyone wants it.
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now I know why mine isn't on there, even though we were supposedly among the top 10-15 in the state : No AP classes, and all the teachers except one or two actively discouraged taking them independently. I think they just didn't want to bother - I was so pissed off when I got to college and everybody had 15-40 credits to start.

 
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
note that this metric is:

# of AP or IB tests GIVEN / # grad seniors


a fairly simplistic measure of school excellence I would say....
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It's a copmpletely ridiculous measure of a school's quality.
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Agreed - to rank highly, you're school just has to push AP testing. Not AP programs, which can be crap - just as long as everybody takes the test. :roll:

I'd like to see AP scores and/or SAT scores rolled in there. Or how about graduation rates? Note that the denominator in this equation is graduating seniors. So having a terrible retention/graduation rate will help you in this metric, because dropouts aren't likely to be taking AP tests.

FWIW, my H.S. isn't on the list - not that this list would be relevent to what the school was 17 years ago. But as a reference, when I got to college, kids from Northern VA schools seemed much better prepared. Not that it mattered much past freshman year. My school had a lousy graduation rate also.
 
Originally posted by: psteng19
Uhmmm... where is Bronx Science and Stuyvesant?
I would've thought those were tops in the nation.

And Brooklyn Tech, Townsend Harris?
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The list does not include schools that take in more than 1/2 of its students through entrance exams.

Bronx Science is an exam school. I assume the others are too.
 
Originally posted by: Dubb
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
note that this metric is:

# of AP or IB tests GIVEN / # grad seniors


a fairly simplistic measure of school excellence I would say....


PS I put the list into an excel table if anyone wants it.
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now I know why mine isn't on there, even though we were supposedly among the top 10-15 in the state : No AP classes, and all the teachers except one or two actively discouraged taking them independently. I think they just didn't want to bother - I was so pissed off when I got to college and everybody had 15-40 credits to start.
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I wouldn't worry to much about that - I had a roomate that bypassed part of Freshman Calc based on AP credits. He got smoked in 2nd semester calc and had to drop it and start from the beginning anyway (which completely fvcked his schedule), and the engineering dept. actively discouraged people from skipping calculus based on AP credit.

I wouldn't use AP credit for anything that's important to your discipline.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Whoever formatted this article is a moron. Tables and standard state abbreviations - USE THEM.

I can't find my school in that list mainly because it is too hard to read or search.
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Yeah, since when is "Ala." the state abbreviation for Alabama?
 
202, and to think we used to be #38 a few years back. Whatever, I'm already out of there and at a top 10 college, and i'll start at a top 10 consutling firm in july.
 
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