<p>Okay, I'm from Atlanta, GA, and according to Newsweek the <em>best</em> public high school district is in Irondale, AL in Jefferson County (Birmingham), AL. I've travelled alot and seen some pretty cool schools and stuff, and my question is. How could some Alabama school POSSIBLY be better than a school like Beverly Hills High School (toured the place before) in Beverly Hills, California where they offer like all the APs and rich kids of movie stars attend? When I looked at the Newsweek list I expected to see some elite Calif. (or NYC) schools there, but, to my surprise, Irondale...Irondale isn't even the wealthiest suburb of Birmingham.</p>
<p>Education Is Not About Money</p>
<p>The reqlly to[p schools in the Country are not part of the Newsweek rankings. All Newsweek is looking at is the average number of APs tken per capita. Everyone can get a 2 on the test and it wouldn't matter. It's beyond useless. Newsweek was just trying to make some of the money US News does by ranking, but they failed in a big way.</p>
<p>Just because Irondale isn't Mountain Brook (The wealthiest suburb of BHM) doesn't mean it isn't better. I've heard great things about Irondale (and Vestavia Hills).</p>
<p>By the way, there was one too many asterisk in the topic of the thread... it Should be Bull****. Just a friendly reminder.</p>
<p>Wait!!!!
Your admitting to reading a plebian magazine like Newsweek!!!!!
Surely, everyone here only reads The Economist ;)</p>
<p>read the economist!!!
and the atlantic is good too :)</p>
<p>Martha, I see where you're coming from. My ATL community is actually more elite than Mountain Brook, but we're not on the list either until way down. MB is good, but it's easy to have a wreck on those down narrow roads. You've got a point. Peace.</p>