Top 1,000 U.S. High Schools

[vexingv]

the ranking methodology is flawed. the number of AP/IB exams taken is not a measure of how good a school is. my alma mater (hunter college high school, nyc, ny) and my bro's (stuyvesant hs nyc, ny) arent listed. imo those two schools are the best high schools (public at least) in nyc.
the ranking def. favors more affluent schools where kids just take ap tests for the hell of it (or so that was my feeling from my friends in those areas). i remember my school wouldnt allow kids to take ap classes before the entry level classes unless they studies in advance to take a placement test to ensure they knew the material in the entry level class. at the same time we were also restricted in the number of classes we could take each semester.

 

[liluqt]

5 schools from my area :thumbsup:

 

[microAmp]

#582 for my old HS.

 

[thegimp03]

Mine doesn't rank...private school.

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

Plano West Senior High 179th
University Of Colorado Engineering School was ranked 33rd in the nation last i checked (for engineering duh)

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
My school doesn't even have a chance because of the way they determined that list...
A significant factor is the percentage of students taking AP classes.

We don't teach AP classes in my school... our students don't take the AP exam!!!

Instead, we've got a significant percentage of our high school faculty who are ALSO adjunct professors to the State University of New York... we teach *actual* college classes in our high school... not AP classes that rely on a test.

If a student takes my calculus class, it goes on their *college* transcript as A, B, C, or D from SUNY Albany. It's identical to if the student actually went to the college campus to take the class.

That is a great program. I found out that my school now has a deal with a college in Reading to offer a dual-credit system.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: thegimp03
Mine doesn't rank...private school.

OH! No wonder.

 

[Rayden]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: Rayden
60 | Oxnard | Oxnard | Calif. | 3.211 | 45

Wtf? Oxnard is right next to where I live and generally considered lower class. I can't believe it scores very high. It may be a wonderful school I don't know. Yet Foothill Technology Highschool, a magnet school that ranked a perfect 10 in some study for California schools isn't even on there.

Compare from the 2004 Academic Performance Index (API) Base Report

Oxnard High
Foothill Tech

Something is definately wrong with the list.

San Marino High

Look at my school's API score ... 897

Yet your school is ranked higher than mine, which is weird.

I didn't go there. Several of my friends did however. I didn't go to public school.

 

[jimmygates]

went to #220.

 

[ts3433]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
My school doesn't even have a chance because of the way they determined that list...
A significant factor is the percentage of students taking AP classes.

We don't teach AP classes in my school... our students don't take the AP exam!!!

Instead, we've got a significant percentage of our high school faculty who are ALSO adjunct professors to the State University of New York... we teach *actual* college classes in our high school... not AP classes that rely on a test.

If a student takes my calculus class, it goes on their *college* transcript as A, B, C, or D from SUNY Albany. It's identical to if the student actually went to the college campus to take the class.

Similar thing at my school, which is at a university, though we still have a fair amount of AP courses. Some courses are taken at CSU Fresno and are credited as such.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Mine doesn't rank.. It's in Canada.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

My old school, Robinson Secondary in Fairfax, VA - 84.. The school after that, Lake Braddock Secondary in Fairfax, VA - 108.

 

[gflores]

I went to a charter school. Was much better than the other public schools in my area and it's only 7 years old.

 

[gwlam12]

mine is 301.

 

[Trevelyan]

Haha, the fact that my old high school was #8 was on the front page at the very top of my local newspaper.

Here's the link: http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/new...F940-C306-4907-B982-B9E98C701227.shtml

 

[kush]

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
177, down from 83 of last year

small world, class of 86

 

[GoodRevrnd]

21 | Troy* | Fullerton | Calif. | 4.165 | 1

'00

 

[Wadded Beef]

my old school ranked #301

eat that lexington, mass.! lol

 

[Actaeon]

lol... 713th

Gateway High School

 

[Acanthus]

appearently the person who made this list is unbiased, since he didnt go to any of these schools..

The formatting is retarded.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
21 | Troy* | Fullerton | Calif. | 4.165 | 1

'00

wow, a lot of people on this forum went to that school

my sis was class of '01 at troy


no one else from my school is on ATOT ... all busy at tutor

 

[Safeway]

I went to a school, The Talented and Gifted Magnet, that should have been #1 or #2 - but it isn't on the list. I took 19 AP classes, and I think 14 was the average. My senior class was 32 graduates. I know for a fact that we rank higher than the Science/Engineering Magnet, which is our closest rival in Dallas - we share the same building.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Diamond Bar High School:
278 | Diamond Bar* | Diamond Bar | Calif. | 2.029 | 5

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Diamond Bar High School:
278 | Diamond Bar* | Diamond Bar | Calif. | 2.029 | 5

another one?! I never knew you went to DBHS!

I was going to go there (or Troy), but I moved after 6th grade ... went to Quail Summit and Chaparral, though

edit: I think there's about 6 on this board who go or went to DBHS

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: GoodRevrnd
21 | Troy* | Fullerton | Calif. | 4.165 | 1

'00

wow, a lot of people on this forum went to that school

my sis was class of '01 at troy


no one else from my school is on ATOT ... all busy at tutor

no one else from my school is on ATOT either. except for one. they're all too computer illiterate or have lives.