We lost faith in public schools a long time ago. The list is pretty much irrelevant to me.
The list also eliminates the extraordinary public schools that have an admissions exam, like Stuyvesant in NYC and Jefferson in VA
WTH? Why is THAT important???
It is interesting that in the two cities where I know a little about the schools, there are schools listed that I would not expect to be on the list and there are not schools there that I would expect to be. But I homeschool, so it is not relevant for us either.
Troy HS, Fullerton CA is a public school. It consistently ranks very highly.
The ethnic composition of the student body is:
39.8% Asian
29.4% Caucasian
13% Hispanic
4.3% Filipino
0.6% African American
12.9% Other (Native American, Pacific Islander, Multiracial).
Source: California Department of Education, Educational Demographics Unit
At least here in California, if you want the best school situation for your child, find where the Asians live and learn. I have heard many Asian families move to areas with schools which do well, further improving the school.
Asian families it appears believe in education.
This list is a joke.
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I found it hard to believe that even one school is LAUSD (Los Angeles) could be in the top 100 so I checked it out:
Year Rank Index Equity and Excellence Subsidized Lunches
2007 46 4.249 60.1 59.6
2006 46 3.964 69.0 34.0
2005 28 3.892 37.0
The “equity and excellence” dropped by 10 percent from 2006 to 2007, but they did manage to find nearly twice as many families to sponge hot lunch off the tax payers. That sounds about right.
Who annointed the Washington Post the arbiter of excellence in education? Methinks the highly rated schools are just the ones which happen to comply with the approved social engineering standards bandied about around the water cooler at the newspaper one day when there was no actual news to distort.
Ace’s old school (George Mason, VA) is listed 60. Great school.
Obligatory graphic.
#5 Suncoast Community** Riviera Beach Fla
I find that one a little hard to swallow.
22 Florida schools in the first 100?
Hey, Ohio had 2.
Okey Dokey
#43 Lincoln Park Academy. My kid graduated with honors and it did a hell of a good job preparing him for college.
Proud of him and this school.
The other public schools in the area are deplorable though.
A couple of things I found amusing about this list. Most of the schools are in the South or Southwest. Only 30 are in the Northeast, Upper Midwest or on the West Coast. Also, Massachusetts, which is always crowing about the quality of its public schools, and whose per capita student spending is pushing $10,000 for high school, has the same number of schools on the list as Alabama, which is one of the lowest in per capita student spending. Each have just ONE school on the list.
What about Miami Northwestern?
For my information, can you tell me if the survey included any high schools outside of the U.S.A.? My understanding is that, for nearly a century, the finest high school in North America has been the University of Toronto Schools (UTS) in Canada. It was once a wholly dependent adjunct to the University of Toronto, having been created in 1910, but it is now semi-autonomous. Its student body was once almost totally WASP, but over the past 3 decades, there has been a gradual increase in the proportion of students of Chinese ancestry, who now comprise 40% of the total. Entry to UTS has always depended on competitive examination. As early as 1931, the top student at UTS, and indeed in the province of Ontario, was Alfred(o) Goggio, a native of Berkeley, CA, who was a Flight Surgeon throughout the Pacific theatre in WWII. He returned to a highly productive career in cardiology in the Bay area after the war..