Top 1,000 U.S. High Schools

[sygyzy]

Oops.

 

[SynthDude2001]

lol....I don't know whether I should be surprised that my high school was so low, surprised that it was even on the list at all, or what (although yes, it was pretty ghetto..)....

980 | Theodore Roosevelt | San Antonio | Texas | 1.061 | 50

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: sygyzy

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: pray4mojo

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 wish I go to your school.

No you don't.

People in my school don't have any fun.

Our prom was a couple days ago on Saturday at the Aquarium of the Pacific ... so many people didn't go ...

Why?

They needed to study for AP Biology and/or Physics and/or Chemistry

Not only that, but it's cutthroat. Four ... yeah, that's right ... 4 students got a 2400 on the March SAT I. That basically screws the rest of the Junior class.




I don't know if you read the Pasadena Star-News, but there was a very interesting front page article about San Marino High and it's "Asian-ness"

Article

The person who wrote it actually interviewed me but decided not to include me since I didn't fit "Asian" completely (I'm Indian).

I am about to read the article. I am glad that San Marino is becoming more "asian." Once the rich asians from Monterey Park, San Gabriel, and Alhambra outgrew this ghetto, they moved on up to San Marino and Pasadena. The whites there are undoubtedly trembling in their homes and very upset at this. They are going to have to move to maintain their race status quo. Change is good.

I agree, change is good.

My parents saw a lot of people from their generation move from India to the U.S., where they stayed in small apartments in odd locations and now own million dollar houses on the north part of Arcadia, the Country Estates in Diamond Bar and there are a few Indians here in San Marino.


Only thing I don't like about SMHS is that the teachers ask us to SLOW DOWN instead of nag us to do work

We need to learn how to have fun

 

[apoc2k3]

im happy that my school is ranked higher than my friends school.
Chantilly - 94 my skool

Centreville - 149
Fairfax - 196

hehe time to rub it in

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: apoc2k3
im happy that my school is ranked higher than my friends school.
Chantilly - 94 my skool

Centreville - 149
Fairfax - 196

hehe time to rub it in

lol

My sister is trying to rub it in that her school is #21 and my school is #151, but my comeback is that the ranking scheme is totally skewed ... which it is

 

[bracut80]

my school isn't even on there (which doesn't surprise me at all)

 

[cornbread]

I know damn well that the #1 school on the list is NOT the best school in the country. It's not the best school in Alabama, much less Jefferson County. There are some other schools, such as Columbus High in Columbus Georgia that are not good schools.. This list is so inaccurate it's not even funny.

 

145 | Solon | Solon | Ohio | 2.516 | 2

Went here for 6 months. Went to primary school in the same town for 8 years.

 

[baclips6]

#3 Stanton c/o '99

 

[xyion]

Originally posted by: Otaking
313 | Clements | Sugar Land | Texas | 1.919 | 2

Go Rangers :thumbsup:

Class of '97 btw

class of 2000.

 

[FuZoR]

912 | Edward R. Murrow(tie)|Brooklyn|N.Y. | 1.130 | 23.6

hahaha im surprised its even on the damn list

 

[So]

My former HS ranked 273.

 

[SouthPaW1227]

no one ever, ever, ever cares where you went to high school.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Ha, I'd be seriously surprised if my high school was in the top 5000.

 

[AdvancedRobotics]

I'm going to guess dead last. I live in Maine. Greely sucks. But it was good enough to get me into Wake Forest, so what the hell do I care! I GRADUATE IN 3 WEEKS! 14 days of school left!!!!

 

[SouthPaW1227]

^ Congrats! Just an hour from my school

gopack*cough*

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
LMAO, Highland Park #12. They should just rename that "Kids with Parents who Have to make a minimum of $1 million or else you're forced into the ghetto a few blocks down"

Im suprised Carroll(Southlake) is so far down the list. I expected AMC to be higher as well. Its funny Austin has extremely high ranked schools, and extremely low ranked schools, relative to the list at least. Colleyville has got to be irritated with that list. Grapevine Highschool is ranked higher.

 

[Riprorin]

Wilson Magnet is listed 27th but it's not even the best HS in Rochester.

McQuaid Jesuit is.

This ranking is highly questionable.

 

[digitalsm]

Originally posted by: Armitage
From the FAQ:
Every school on the list is in the top four percent of American high schools based on this measure.

So, if you accept that this metric has merit, even the worst school on the list is in the top 4% - hard to believe that there are > 25000 high schools in the US.

The metric reminds me of the old adage "If you can measure what's important, ascribe importance to what you can measure"

There are over 14,000 school districts in the United States. Large cities have school districts with 5+ high schools.

Hell Texas has 1041 school districts, and there are atleast 15 that have atleast 5 high schools. Some state legislature want to consolidate school districts. The overhead costs for 1041 school districts is exorbenent making school spending inefficent.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: cornbread
I know damn well that the #1 school on the list is NOT the best school in the country. It's not the best school in Alabama, much less Jefferson County. There are some other schools, such as Columbus High in Columbus Georgia that are not good schools.. This list is so inaccurate it's not even funny.

What do you think the best school in Jefferson County is? If you say ASFA I'll punch you. :roll:

50% of the University of Alabama's Tier 1 scholarships went to JCIB students. We've been number 1 in the state for scholarship money, ACT scores, and AP/IB completion for years. ASFA doesn't even compete.

 

[glugglug]

If you read the thing it says the ranking is based soley on the # of IB and AP tests divided by the # of students.

Well DUH the IB magnet schools are going to be at the top then... It has Hillsborough High listed as #10, which if not for the IB program would be one of the worst schools in Tampa.

Basically they should just relabel it as "List of International Bacheloreate magnet schools."

In fact, the way counties select which school they are going to have as the IB school, if any, is based on the school which is doing poorly and they are having a hard time getting a decent # of whites in for desegregation laws without having most of the school population bussed in from out of the area already. So most of the schools on the list I am sure are in fact pretty bad.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

so it's top 1000 but the list has 1036 entries....makes sense.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: glugglug
If you read the thing it says the ranking is based soley on the # of IB and AP tests divided by the # of students.

Well DUH the IB magnet schools are going to be at the top then... It has Hillsborough High listed as #10, which if not for the IB program would be one of the worst schools in Tampa.

Basically they should just relabel it as "List of International Bacheloreate magnet schools."

In fact, the way counties select which school they are going to have as the IB school, if any, is based on the school which is doing poorly and they are having a hard time getting a decent # of whites in for desegregation laws without having most of the school population bussed in from out of the area already. So most of the schools on the list I am sure are in fact pretty bad.

Smoke crack much? Shades Valley was one of the better performing schools in the Jefferson County system, and had the RLC program for at least two decades before getting the IB programme. Your argument is predicated wholly on one observation instead of several. The only schools in this area with IB programmes are top schools, but hey people are always going to attack whoever is listed as number one and the criteria for such.

 

[randomlinh]

OMG, this is a terrible list. I'm 396... but.. #11.. sucks.. only because they have the IB program there...

 

[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.