I don’t know why the editor or author made an issue out of three from Virginia being in the top 100. I counted 18 being in New York.
Probably because number 1 is in Virginia.
The 6 schools are all in the immediate DC suburbs. i live in Northern VA and my kids attend private schools. i think it is a testament to the strength of the education in this area that the private schools are all extremely competitive, given the excellence of the public education here. are the 18 NY schools all in the NYC area?
I would imagine the reason is that Virginia had the number one high school.
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.
and by the looks of it; most of those are in Westchester...the most taxed to death county in New York...full of limo libs by the way.
Perhaps because of the large difference in population. Virginia has far fewer students.
23 from California
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!
Five in little Massachusetts.