<p>My school is pretty good, I guess, #205. The bottom 50% really suck but the top 50% is fairly brutal.</p>
<p>my school has a mid-200s ranking Newsweek</p>
<p>My school dropped from 260 in 2003 to 420. Public school sucks.
But really, that formula is kind of silly. I mean, every senior could take 10 AP tests, but that doesn't mean they will pass them.</p>
<p>sometimes you get a sense of things just by going to 2-3 different high schools -- you also look at amount of people the high school landed in college at all and in top universities -- schools post stuff like that</p>
<p>overwise i think people just assume that if they went to private school and were drilled since age of 11 on SAT vocab than that is a top school</p>
<p>It all depends on your definition of "TOP". The top school in Louisiana might rank as a low school in California. A low school for AP kids might rank high for average kids. Too many differentials. You must do your homework and find the best school for your kids.</p>