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Newsweek ranks the 1,200 top U.S. high schools

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  • bluetrevian, on 10/11/2007, -27/+4Woot! #437 New Trier High School in Winnetka Illinois

    Oh... and the article is decent too.
    • mwsherman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+60Wow, you'd think for being the one of the most wealthy school systems in the country (if not the wealthiest), New Trier could place a little higher. The school district even owns art in the Chicago Art Institute. That's ***** up.

      Furthermore, the ranking is based only on a single number--the ratio of AP tests taken to number of students graduating. Not exactly comprehensive, and it substantially awards schools districts that pay the AP fees for each test (about $70) and force all AP students to take them. Meanwhile, the poorer schools that make the students pay out of pocket for the tests...well, we wont be seeing many of them on this list.
    • Condottieri, on 10/11/2007, -1/+34My old school, Richard Montgomery High from Maryland, is number 25.

      Funny thing was, the only reason it's on the list is because of it's magnet program. Without it, it's one of the worst schools in the county.

      I assume the same applies for a lot of the schools on the list.
    • bonyicecream, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3TAG and SEM (#s 1 and 2) are magnet schools at Townview High School. My sister went to tag and I think she was taking 6 APs here junior year. I have a few friends that go to SEM, and all of them are taking 4-6 APs(junior year).
      TAG and SEM are very selective. I believe tag's class size is about 45 people per year, and SEM's is a little bit bigger.

      At my (private) high school, we're not even allowed to take more than 3 APs (unless one is AP art)! haha...
    • nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -7/+62Wow, Texas has the top two! And 4 in the top 15? I hate it when my stereotypes start to slip away.
    • wild, on 10/11/2007, -12/+27My Texas high school is 423.

      That doesn't change our reputation though. We still have to claim Bush.
    • dunezone, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2@mwsherman

      Naperville's high schools are probably the wealthiest school in Illinois if not in the country.
    • pwill, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4Hmm...
      Last year, my school (Columbus Alternative) was 297. This year, we are 244. However, this is the first time in school history that we have not had 100% graduation rate for seniors (graduating class is about 110-130 students)
      Also, our SAT/ACT averages dropped this year...
    • Gir53457, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9Yeah, well Tony Hawk graduated from my school. Concord High.
    • triscuitbiscuit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8@mwsherman...
      Actually many of the poorer districts have subsidized AP tests and many states (ie Georgia) provide full funding for them...
      My cousin who lives no more than 30 minutes from me but in the same state paid half of what I paid for the tests.
      This is one of the reasons its flawed because for those districts where it is either free or subsidized, a higher proportion of kids taking AP classes will take the tests. Additionally for those places that give them for free the students are forced to take the AP test. So even though school A may have Physics C and have 10/20 students take the tests and get all 5's, school B can have 20/20 of the students take the tests (because they are free) and get all 3's and yet still be ranked higher.... Makes no sense.
    • mightyarmenian, on 10/11/2007, -3/+108RANKING BASED ON AP SCORES IS INACCURATE
    • Sblader5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9only public schools for everyones info
    • Anand999, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24"That doesn't change our reputation though. We still have to claim Bush."

      Bush went to primary school is Massachusetts and college at Yale in Connecticut. Say what you will about the Texas education system but George Bush isn't a product of it :)
    • Scheissen, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10I think everyone would be interested in that Little Rock Central in Arkansas is number 24. This is the same school that blocked the entrance to black students just 50 years ago.
    • kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12#45, and its honestly a piece of *****, its only so high because they force you to take IB and AP classes, MANDATORY.
    • WhiteIce89, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1This is a buggy list, to say the least. Stuyvesant didn't even make the list at all? My H.S., Brooklyn Tech is listed as #374. Both of these are elite and very selective specialized high schools in NYC.
    • realitybias, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Here is the REAL list of the best high schools, by newsweek. These schools were EXCLUDED because of their above average ACT/SAT scores and competitive admissions.

      I went to LSMSA (and I loved it there. I would not trade the education I got there for the world).

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18784620/site/newsweek/

    • spanishmoon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4this ranking is so inaccurate in so many ways.
    • gxcdesign, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5New Trier ftw! but I didn't go to that school but we ruined their homecoming football game!
    • realitybias, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Stuyvesant is too on the list. It's just excluded because of its competitive admissions. It is part of the "public elite" category in the link I mentioned before.

    • monsterenergy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1no private schools? *****. punahou academy has a glass blowing program..plus surfing as a pe elective..hawaii ftw. oh yeah, a 15k annual tuition
    • Lixie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1#776

      Damn, pretty good for a completely open public school so poor it can't even afford air conditioning. Oh, and we had to pay for our own text books and our own AP tests.
    • skyshock21, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Nice! Mine was top 300. #295.
    • skyshock21, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9BTW, Magnet schools shouldn't count in this because they can kick out anyone who's making C's. Other schools can't do that.
    • thestuffmeister, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I live in West Virginia where getting AP tests are difficult to get due to price and our teachers cannot teach classes that focus on the more advanced materials that the AP exams require. Teachers just can't justify having extra classes 2 hours before or after school for their salaries of about 20-30k a year.

      Due to such budgeting and course constraints, my school could only offer 5 AP courses (total) throughout all of my 4 years of high school.
    • mhockey14221, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6As someone who's been out of the whole high school loop, is there any reliable way to predict high school preformance (other than, well, APs?) Shouldnt things at least like SATs, college acceptance rates, drop out rates, maybe even amount of community service, etc. be included?

      Plus, this doesnt include private schools. Not to brag, but my high school, a private Jesuit school, clearly had better SATs and sent more kids to college than #8 City Honors in Buffalo and we're not even on the list, and even if the ranking dropped, I'm fairly certain it would have been within the top 1000 high schools. We didnt do any standardized testing other than APs because we recieved no governmental money. This list reeks of inaccuracy, and will until some real form of testing can be implemented.
    • gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1I went to a programming competition in Texas with some of those kids from one of the top two. Those kids were socially inept and they certainly kicked our asses. My old high school wouldn't make the top 5,000. Texas still is retarded when it comes to normal high schools.

      Our High School fired an AP chem teacher because she was teaching her kids AP Chemistry instead of a TAKS test review (the standardized test in Texas). AP chemistry students DON'T need to review for standardized tests.

      The stereotypes are still true in Texas. If anything this shows how much Texas segregates students and doesn't teach them *****, but hey a few Texas magnet schools have a lot of bright kids!
    • scyform, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Nope, my school isn't on the list...it IS however, on the link below, "The Public Elites." During my time there I'm pretty sure we kicked Raleigh Charter's ass at pretty much everything...

      "NEWSWEEK excluded these high performers from the list of America’s Best High Schools because so many of their students score well above the average on the SAT and ACT."

      Mm nothing like a good ego boost at 1:30 in the morning :P
    • ChronicColonic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Ridemont High didn't make the list? I don't understand why. That school is so totally gnarly!
    • 5m0k3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1The list has 1200 schools. My K-12 school had 600 students. I really doubt it made the cut
    • Comatose51, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4OK I used to live in Dallas. Highland Park is the neighborhood in Dallas where the wealthiest people lived. Dallas and I think all of Texas have independent school districts so the tax dollars from those areas don't go anywhere else but that district. You want good high schools? Cough up the money. The rest of the high schools in Dallas isn't even marginally close to top few. That just shows how segregated Dallas is. Just drive 5 minutes south on 75 from Uptown and you immediately cross into south Dallas where you think you were in some border town in Mexico.

      Now as far as Bush goes, to be fair, no one could have a better education /opportunites than he did. He went to Phillips Andover in MA, then Yale in New Haven, CT, and finally his MBA from Harvard in Cambridge, MA. That's the triple crown of a preppy education.
    • Comatose51, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5If they had included the private schools and the public elites like Stuyvesant the Dallas schools probably won't even place in the top 20. The Dallas schools are nice but aren't even feeder schools that provide freshmen in groups to our top universities. The simple truth is that money matters a lot when it comes to education both at the high school and university level.
    • scoot87, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2My high school...#113 Torrey Pines...Home of Tony Hawk, John Lynch, Shawn White, Scott Pollard...and other great minds of our times.
    • Lux7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Saratoga High School #180

      Wooooooooooooo
    • walkingdogs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2#659
    • leadingzero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1#4 BABY!!! And that's coming from Alabammer. We were actually #1 two years ago.
    • mattmollysdad, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3I didn't know so many Asian kid were sprinkled out across the country.
    • joe0891, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@ mhockey14221

      Ha, I go to the same school, posting it from here.

      You're right, especially when schools get exempt from state and federal tests for having higher standards, approved by the state. It makes the rankings lopsided a bit, since there are many very good schools that do get exemptions.
    • mattmollysdad, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@Sblader5
      Two points about California schools that r sort of interesting:
      1. By State law, the wealthier the district... based on incomes earned... the less money the school district gets from the State. Ex. The worst district in LA gets over $3,500 a student where a beach community school district get under $400 a student. So funds needed to buy computers, fix the sports field, guidance counselors whatever either come from local tax assessment or through fundraising.
      2. Some of the best high school in the State. ex. San Francisco school has application process and picks the students they want. It's based totally on test scores from junior high. This is not a lottery drawing or anything like that, just the best. One school was sued about ten years back as it only had 1% that was NOT Asian but they didn't win. It's a great school and high up on the list.
    • Charlotte_Web, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not a single school from Louisiana on the list...
    • OMGWTFROFLMAOx2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1#295, seems lower than I remember when I was a student there. Oh well.

      Go DFA! (known as the "nerd school" when i went there)
    • techweenie1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yep, graduated from Hinsdale Central, Hinsdale,IL (336) in '01 ... suprised RB is higher than us though, something tells me this isn't exactly acurrate.
    • bobbyi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Stuyvesant is too on the list. It's just excluded because of its competitive admissions"

      If it's excluded than it's... not on the list. If Stuy is excluded, it is very misleading for submitter to call this the "top US high schools".
    • timo1023, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is pointless data. My school is in the top 25 and judging from my experiences there, I refuse to believe that it is one of the top high schools in the nation. The reason it is ranked so high is that the school district pays for all the students to take AP tests, and makes them mandatory.
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      Maybe their techies should have gone to better high schools...
    • jerr0328, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1#5: We used to be #7
      They will not shut up about it! All the time it was "Suncoast: Ranked 7th in the nation!" down our throats. It used to be that if you were in IB, you took only IB exams. Now that there's this whole ranking system, they have been forcing us to take so many more AP exams. The rank isn't based on pass rate of the AP/IB exams, it's based on the number administered, so they inflate our numbers by making us take all these extra exams without great teaching. And it really makes it hard on us, esp. when exams overlap and we have to take alternative exams!
  • phoephus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6With the amount I pay in school taxes, #42 sounds about right.
    • nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -4/+42I know where you live now.
    • jsowder18, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3At least you don't live in Indiana like me :-( ... we have zero schools and only one on last years and zero the year before that ... i dont' under stand why we are rank so low, der de der
    • jgtg32a, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2umm we have like 4/5 on the list search by Indiana

      and NC is ranked 495. So I just lost that last ounce of respect that I had for newsweek.
    • ChronicColonic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I dont no wi my skool didnt mak the list...
    • phoephus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1@nixonrichard
      Did I say 42? I meant 47...go fightin' ....Horace....Greeley's...yay.
    • QueenBeeCassi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1jsowder,
      i'm from indiana, i went to north central, it's #493 on the list...
    • bubbadoo989, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I too pay steep property taxes, but 794th place hardly seems like anything to get excited about.
  • supernova17, on 10/11/2007, -13/+2# 343 Woodrow Wilson in Washington D.C. w00t class of 2005
    • flernk, on 10/11/2007, -11/+2crap. digg me to oblivion, people!
    • nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1You were #316 back in 2005. Even better!
    • BeyondGoodNEvil, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Wasn't Woodrow Wilson a president? Sorry, my school was dead last. Don't blame me.
    • TonyTheTerrible, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1wilson is my old high too, ranked 500 something tho ;(
  • lurker03, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3It's public schools only, but I feel pretty good about where my school would be. One kid failed out of my high school and has a 5.0 gpa at the 14th school.
    • crackedplastic, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Yeah, too bad this is only public high schools. Otherwise the University of Chicago Laboratory School should be in the list:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Laboratory_School
    • nreynolds, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4I wish they would've done private schools. I'm certain that according to their algorithm, my school would be in the top 50. Several hundred AP tests taken, a graduating class of about 70. But what really matters is the scores on those tests. In last year's AP Calc AB class, there were 17 5's and 2 4's. Nothing lower.
    • xgenericx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0Calculus AB was pretty easy, lets instead talk AP physics, now that's some difficult testing.
    • rabidgnome, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Private schools are tricky if all you go by is AP
      They do not have to report scores and most do not
    • WiseElben, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Calculus AB is like... nothing. BC is a bit harder but still nothing too difficult. Physics C is definitely harder but the AP test this year was easier compared to the practice ones I took.

      Anyway, ranking by AP tests is quite useless because many students just load up on AP tests they are not prepared for, especially if it's free.
    • spanishmoon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@nreynolds thats not really that impressive. I'm gonna sound like a dick, but ap physics and ab calc aren't very hard. We haven't had anything below a 5 in BC Calc in like the last 6 years, and I wouldn't even say we're all that great of a school. Its a stupid way of ranking schools when some amazing schools dont even offer AP courses because they dont believe in the system.
    • nreynolds, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I'm not saying AP Calc is hard, but only about 20% of students get a 5, that's a fact. It's about 12% for physics. I thought both tests were super easy, but as a school, my school does very well. And Physics C is way easier than B, everyone I know agrees about that.

      What I was really saying is that it's not quantity of tests but quality. My friends at public school all say no one tries on AP's and they just do it to get it on their transcript.

      @ spanishmoon
      I'm not sure my school has ever had anything less than a 5 in BC since our current math teacher took over, but that's because it's more selective. They let practically anyone in our school into AB, and practically everyone still gets a five. And if the school doesn't offer AP's because they don't believe in the system, that school sucks. They're not being fair to the students.
  • G8Way, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17I dunno why Booker T. Washington in Oklahoma is on this list at #75. I've been there and it's pretty violent and is basically located in the ghetto.
    • letdowntourist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9so is the talented and gifted school in dallas, but its ranked number 1.
    • jerryparid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Little Rock Central #24 is also a ghetto. Only thing saving it is the massive amount of APs student take due to state paying for AP exams.
    • fishmasta, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I went to Booker T. and yeah, it's in the ghetto, but I have no clue what you're talking about with violent.
    • skyshock21, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Affirmative action.
    • riah, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Soooo, ghetto = bad school?
    • OldPink, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0@g8way

      Yeah, I live in the area of Booker T. , I never went there but it looks quite run down..surprising that it is in the top 1200..
    • JimmyRyan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I know that what happens in Texas is the ghetto areas get extra funding from the state and (like the talented and gifted school) students will transfer into that school. So basically its a loophole system. Works well to get you to number 1 I guess though!
    • bubbadoo989, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Good dope.
  • Turambar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2oh yeah! William G. Enloe High at no. 53!

    guess Cochrane couldn't ***** it up fast enough. man i wish Gardner were still principal. That guy knew what he was doing.

  • doczein, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2no.
    • Loyaleagle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1ditto (and we were one of the best in the state in other ratings....sooooo confused...)
  • topdollag, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0Mine isn't on their because apparently spending the money on security cameras and metal detectors are way more important than an actual education.
    • doczein, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4apparently so... "mines", "their", "spending money... are way more important".
  • seehuge, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0Woot! Oakton High School - Vienna, VA #99
  • daedalus779, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18wow, a lot of Florida high schools for such a retarded state.
  • maddendude, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1top 100, but from the average intelligence level of the students, the activities the students do, and the colleges that we send kids to.....we feel like we're top 5.
    • maddendude, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2me =/= frat boy
      actually im a senior in HS
      and its a public school
  • mtbaird5687, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1#126, not too shabby
  • MalDON, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I see some colleges on there. Not exactly only high schools.
    • AaronTyler, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1#34 Walnut Hills High School FTW!!!!
  • SultanTravi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9That's a horrible way of measuring how good a school is.
  • gormenghast, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2How the ***** did Mugswanna High not make it.
  • eksai, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1#165
  • aresef, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I'm class of 06, I went to #279. I guess that makes me special since these stats were taken on the class of 06.
  • Satanael, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3#899... I'm rather surprised it wasn't in Top100... Looks like a bunch of private schools are in there so I guess that's hard to compete with.
    • toby34a, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Dude, it's all public schools. RTFA. What you do have to compete with, though, are those "special" programs and schools for smart kids that a lot of districts are putting together now that offer tons of AP courses to a select student body. I'd actually prefer a private school over that... but then again, I went to a Catholic high school.
    • flare8899, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1They are public schools.
    • skyshock21, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Magnet schools are a different story. They're based on limited acceptance, so NO they shouldn't be considered public schools.
  • dkguy55, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1#161 for Stevenson! Inflated due to the massive amounts of APs they force on us but w/e. Plus their disciplinary system is harsh and I will likely get in-school consequences for insulting the school on Digg. JUST WATCH!
  • maddendude, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1High school is just college prep, so looking at the colleges that students go to is a good way to measure IMO.
  • DeliLlama, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0Damn it, my high school fell from #8 to #57!

    And our rival High school from across the street is 21.

    We have always been better than them, until now.

    *****!



    • epgyd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Here, take this pill; it will make you better.

      And by 'better', I mean 'not'.
  • gpit2286, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5My high school wasn't on the list... but the one I teach at is! Does that count for anything?
  • battlerex99, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I was wondering why my school was not even on that list... but then I realized that technically my school is not public (even though it's free).
  • psbpv3o, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Mines on there, damn does this mean I can't complain?
  • Lugersan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I think this ranking system is a bit broken, because AP tests are voluntary at lots of schools.

    And you'll note that the rank has nothing to do with the scores on the AP tests, just the number taken per graduating senior.
  • Axios, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Yep... #3. I had to work hard in high school, unfortunately.
  • zeous, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The list has Wilton and Greenwich high schools, but not New Canaan or Darien? I call bs.
  • Juaquin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Is it just me or is that a REALLY stupid way to rank schools? I know that my school almost forced students to take AP or IB, but it was a *****. That's the only factor they consider? Pathetic.
  • silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1don't know about the rest of you, but the mich schools and most of the ohio schools that made it are all in very high wealth areas. so not only are these places getting more tax dollars, but there are probably parents with the legal oomph to make sure programs are good or better than good. $$$$ = better i guess

    isn't it weird that school is just now letting out and suddenly education articles hit digg?
  • cocoamix, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1My high school (Lowell High in San Francisco, #57) should be ranked higher because Rube Goldberg went there. :)


  • duddles, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Cherry Creek representing at #297
  • shanelu87, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Mine is 112th this year...I took 12 AP's my high school years. complete waste of time :
    • chiller2002, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Beat Male! oh *****...they didn't even make it.
    • scispaz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1#117 and I took somewhere between 11 and 13. I agree that it is a waste of time. Also a terrible way to rate schools (and IB sucks).
  • tyler9xp, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1#728 in 2003, #868 now.

    :|

    Anyway, class of '09!
  • EODMpink, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0If top ten lists get digg's jollies off then this list should do some damage.
  • limpl0uie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1HA! South Miami Senior High...384...I always felt it was more of a 863 or 952 kinda school...

    The strange thing is some of the stupidest people I've ever met went to the #20 school. Coral Reef...buncha *****...
  • battlerex99, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1And wow, I just noticed that NONE of the big three NYC schools are on that list (Hunter College High School (mine), Stuyvesant, and Bronx High School of Science). All three are constantly in nationwide top 10 lists, so this baffles me. The latter two are public, so they should be at least somewhere on that list.
  • r2pro, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1How did Stuy not make the #1 spot? They must not have responded to the survey. Anyways. this article is inaccurate if the best school in the country is not anywhere near the top.
    • battlerex99, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1As I said before, neither Stuy, BX Sci, nor Hunter are even in the top 1,200 in the country according to that list. Utterly ridiculous.
    • chiller2002, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@battlerex99 & r2pro

      The schools you have mentioned were specifically excluded from the list by Newsweek because they stand well above the rest. They have a special article dedicated to them located here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18784620/site/newsweek/

      There you go, happy?
    • scispaz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Feel smart enough yet?
  • vagrantwade, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Nice...Iowa has a whole 3 schools on the list. And all three located within a 30 mile radius.
    • aloser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The search is not working correctly.. which 3 Iowa schools are they?
  • jbink303, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Hey, I start teaching at number 141 in August. Not too bad to be in the top 150... top 142, even.
    • hightower77, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Rock on!

      Class of '96 here! (Oh dear, does that make me feel freakin' old.)

      /***** gun, aims at head.
  • codyman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1#452nd... San Clemente High School

    Not too bad for us surf bum small town stoners...
  • mdm05e, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3#22 Center For Advanced Technogolies..what...also a magnet attached to a otherwise terrible school. And we were all forced to take the AP tests even if we didn't want to. The teachers were given a bonus according to how many students they had pass an Ap test.
    • KidAirbag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm surprised they counted CAT separately from Lakewood. I would think Palm Harbor and St Pete would kick our asses if they counted all magnets separately.

      Btw what year did you graduate from CAT? 06 here.
  • Jennifurret, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2This just in: Rich neighborhoods have better high schools. Why? The parents tend to be middle to upper class, doctors, lawyers, or at least involved. They produce children who do better in school that inner city kids who don't even know who their dad is and their parent is on welfare. All the schools listed in Illinois or Indiana (the areas I know - my parents are both teachers) are either rich neighborhoods or special academy schools you need to apply to.

    Basically, this list is a waste of time. Just list schools by average income of the families and I bet not much would change.
    • SocialArchetype, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0agreed
      /lots of Illinois people on digg
    • flare8899, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I'm from Illinois, who is on digg? I don't know anyone here on digg, although I did see someone on the fourth of July wearing a DiggNation t-shirt at Navy Pier in Chicago. I almost high-fived him, but my girlfriend said I was a dork.
    • Gatesophile, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm from Illinois. I hate it.
    • techweenie1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm from Chicago, love it...but I love London too.
  • artificial001, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1297 and steadily going farther from 1 each year.

    LOL high school.

    LOL @ putting Fairview in my state above mine, they're not that great of a school.
    • duddles, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Hey I went to Creek too!

      I graduated in '98.
  • shadowmoose, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What a crappy ranking system.
  • Sturminator, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1WTF? No schools from West Virginia!
  • greyghst168, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Wouldn't it make more sense to rank the schools based on the percentage of students that take an AP or IB exam that actually receive a passing grade on the exam, rather than just the percentage of students who take one? That way it wouldn't matter what schools pay for their students to take the exam--the one's that actually teach the material well will have a higher percentage of students with a passing score.
  • vagrantwade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Anyone else just chilling on this digg digging down anyone who posts just to e-brag their highschool?
  • crack, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Wow, just barely made it on... Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (#1100) Not bad for one of the most corrupt/bankrupt school districts in the nation
  • battlerex99, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Well, I've figured it out. This was in their FAQ about how they picked everything:

    "We do not include any magnet or charter high school that draws such a high concentration of top students that its average SAT or ACT score significantly exceeds the highest average for any normal-enrollment school in the country. This year, that meant such schools had to have an average SAT score below 1,300 on the reading and math sections, or an average ACT score below 27, to be included on the list."

    Essentially, this list is apparently the best schools that aren't elite.
  • mal5305, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2#666. ironic. our principal looks like Hitler (it's startling). he likes to make up words such as "staffulty", and I'm convinced that he thinks our school's motto "Carpe Diem" means "seize the carp"...
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