Top 1,000 U.S. High Schools

[aphex]

Originally posted by: RichieZ
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.

well aren't we proud of you

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

My school is nowhere in sight. At least using ctrl + F.

Not surprising, 95%+ of those kids were going nowhere. There were a couple AP classes and also joint enrollment with a nearby community college so it wasn't that bad.

Best of all it was free, hehe. Well, except for taxes.

 

[scorpmatt]

the highschool that i kinda went to is not on that list. which isn't a surprise... anyone from the south hill / puyallup washington area should know what im talking about.

 

[Doboji]

My highschool would make the worst 100 list easily.

-Max

 

[J Heartless Slick]

11 | Richard Montgomery* | Rockville | Md. | 5.029 | 13

 

[Scarpozzi]

My school didn't make the list....which is surprising. I would think it's one of the best in the state... By the way, private schools are included. I saw a few.

 

[MisterYu]

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

Class of 98. But it doesn't mean anything now.

 

[macwinlin]

#272

 

[snooker]

my high school (Ft. Myers High) is ranked #64. I knew it would be up there!

 

[Doboji]

8,265,544,234 | Suitland | District Heights | Md. | -131.985 | 0

 

[PHiuR]

yeah... i went to a "urban" public school...
i don't think it'll be on the list.

 

[Doggiedog]

Originally posted by: aceO07

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?

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.

Oh!

Damn us Bronx Science grads are stupid. I was wondering the same thing. I wonder how our school would rank if they didn't have that criteria. I think we have like 5 Nobel prize winners from our HS. I wonder if that counts for anything?

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

too bad putting down I graduated from a top 100 High School in the nation on my resume won't get me any jobs. Well maybe at McD's.

 

[imported_KirbsAw]

Not in HS anymore, but the one I went to is 352.

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

Eh... reading the FAQ makes me not believe this list at all:

6. Why don?t I see famous public high schools like Stuyvesant in New York City or Thomas Jefferson in Fairfax County, Va., or the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Ill. or Lowell High in San Francisco on the NEWSWEEK list?

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.

 

[gleong]

568 | Monte Vista | Danville | Calif. | 1.482 | 1

 

[Doggiedog]

Originally posted by: ABitTooSpicy
Eh... reading the FAQ makes me not believe this list at all:

6. Why don?t I see famous public high schools like Stuyvesant in New York City or Thomas Jefferson in Fairfax County, Va., or the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Ill. or Lowell High in San Francisco on the NEWSWEEK list?

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.

The author should also discount high schools in rich communities too if that is the case.

 

[NewSc2]

Wow, we tanked, 282. We were like the top 20 AP schools when I was in there, class of 2001

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Trevelyan
It's funny there are a ton of schools listed in the top twenty that are in Florida... I thought we had some of the worst public education?

I know, but lots of residents down there are rich as hell....All the places my g/f's parents picked to live were communities where dads bought there kids brand new cars for their 16th birthday. Lots of these schools have enough money to have their porm at Disney World. I feel bad for my g/f though, b/c she got to pick between Pensacola and some other school, and she picked the other school.

 

[phreakah]

355 | Cerritos | Cerritos | Calif. | 1.827 | 6.3

Class of 2001

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: cHeeZeFacTory
too bad putting down I graduated from a top 100 High School in the nation on my resume won't get me any jobs. Well maybe at McD's.

I know. hahahaha

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: tec699
I have a feeling the top 10 schools are in rich well to do neighborhoods. I had a buddy that graduated from a public school in NY and it was like a huge college campus! He also lived a few blocks from Bill Clinton.

#2 is in bloomfield - richest neighborhood in all metro detroit. Predominantly jewish.

 

[oogabooga]

my school is ranked higher then one other school (who is 50 something) in every facet, yet is not on that list... hrmm...

 

[Rallispec]

532 | Osbourn Park | Manassas | Va. | 1.528 | 9


my old highschool

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

My high school is in the higher 600s.